City Point, July 28,
1864.
. . . Matters are now such that it is impossible for me to
leave here at present. Active operations have commenced, which with the fact of
the General's forgetting himself, in that one danger of which I wrote you this
morning, renders my being here of an importance that you can appreciate as
fully as any person living, although it deprives you of an immediate visit from
me, a visit which my health demands . . .
Since writing the foregoing I have had a long talk with the
General and Colonel Bowers, and they conclude I had better go as early as the
first of next month, and I have thought, all things considered, I can perhaps
as well be spared by that time as at any time thereafter. So you may begin to
look for me about next Wednesday if I have no delays. . . .
SOURCE: James
Harrison Wilson, The Life of John A. Rawlins, p. 249
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