City Point, July 28,
1864.
. . . On my return yesterday from Washington I
touched at Cherry Stone Point and there received your despatch, for which accept my thanks. . I find the
General in my absence digressed from his true path. The God of Heaven only
knows how long I am to serve my country as the guardian of the habits of him
whom it has honored. It shall not be always thus. Owing to this faltering of
his, I shall not be able to leave here till the rebel movement in Maryland is
settled and also the fate of Atlanta.
SOURCE: James
Harrison Wilson, The Life of John A. Rawlins, p. 249
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