CITY POINT, VA.,
November 1, 1864—6 p.m.
Major-General
SHERMAN,
Atlanta, Ga.:
Do you not think it
advisable now that Hood has gone so far north to entirely settle him before
starting on your proposed campaign? With Hood's army destroyed you can go where
you please with impunity. I believed, and still believe, that if you had
started south whilst Hood was in the neighborhood of you he would have been
forced to go after you. Now that he is so far away, he might look upon the
chase as useless and go in one direction whilst you are pushing in the other.
If you can see the chance for destroying Hood's army, attend to that first and
make your other move secondary.
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
39, Part 3 (Serial No. 79), p. 576
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