Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General William T. Sherman, November 2, 1864 — 11:30 a. m.


CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, November 2, 1864—11:30 A. M.

Major- General SHERMAN:

Your dispatch of 9 A. M. yesterday is just received. I dispatched you the same date, advising that Hood’s army, now that it had worked so far north, ought to be looked upon now as the “object.” With the force, however, that you have left with General Thomas, he must be able to take care of Hood and destroy him.

I do not see that you can withdraw from where you are to follow Hood, without giving up all we have gained in territory. I say, then, go on as you propose.

U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant- General.

SOURCE: William T. Sherman, Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman, 1891, Vol. 2, p. 166

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