Sunday, February 11, 2018

Major-General George H. Thomas to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, December 11, 1864 – 10:30 p.m.

NASHVILLE, December 11, 1864 10.30 p.m.
Lieut. Gen. U.S. GRANT,
City Point:

Your dispatch of 4 p.m. this day is just received. I will obey the order as promptly as possible, however much I may regret it, as the attack will have to be made under every disadvantage. The whole country is covered with a perfect sheet of ice and sleet, and it is with difficulty the troops are able to move about on level ground. It was my intention to attack Hood as soon as the ice melted, and would have done so yesterday had it not been for the storm.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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. 143

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