Sunday, February 11, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, December 2, 1864 – 10:30 a.m.

WAR DEPARTMENT,         
Washington, December 2, 1864 10.30 a.m.
Lieutenant-General GRANT,
City Point:

The President feels solicitous about the disposition of General Thomas to lay in fortifications for an indefinite period “until Wilson gets equipments.” This looks like the McClellan and Rosecrans strategy of do nothing and let the rebels raid the country. The President wishes you to consider the matter.

E. M. STANTON,     
Secretary of War.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 45, Part 2 (Serial No. 94), p. 15-6

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