CITY POINT, VA., December 11,
1864 — 1 p.m.
Major-General THOMAS,
Nashville, Tenn.:
If you delay attack longer the mortifying spectacle will be
witnessed of a rebel army moving for the Ohio River, and you will be forced to
act, accepting such weather as you find. Let there be no further delay. Hood
cannot stand even a drawn battle so far from his supplies of ordnance stores.
If he retreats and you follow, he must lose his material and much of his army.
I am in hopes of receiving a dispatch from you to-day announcing that you have
moved. Delay no longer for weather or re-enforcements.
U.S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.
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. 701-2
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