CITY POINT, VA.,
August 15, 1864—9 p.m.
(Received 6.30 a.m. 17th.)
Major-General HALLECK,
Washington, D. C.
If there is any danger of an uprising in the North to resist
the draft or for any other purpose our loyal Governors ought to organize the
militia at once to resist it. If we are to draw troops from the field to keep
the loyal States in harness it will prove difficult to suppress the rebellion
in the disloyal States. My withdrawal now from the James River would insure the
defeat of Sherman. Twenty thousand men sent to him at this time would destroy
the greater part of Hood's army, and leave us men wherever required. General
Heintzelman can get from the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois a militia
organization that will deter the discontented from committing any overt act. I
hope the President will call on Governors of States to organize thoroughly to
preserve the peace until after the election.
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 42
(Serial No. 88), p. 193
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