UNITED STATES
SENATE, July 15, 1867.
Dear Brother: . . .
I have no time to write you more as to my trip, except to convey the earnest
personal message sent by Emperor Louis Napoleon to you. He asked me to say to
you, in his name, that he considered you the genius of our war, and that he had
for you as a military man the highest regard. He and his Court treated me with
unusual attention, no doubt partly on your account. You would have been
received with much heartiness. While I am glad you abandoned that excursion,
yet I hope you will arrange to go this winter to Paris and London.
The Indian War is an
inglorious one. We shall probably pass a bill to authorize you and others to
make a treaty with the Indians, with a view to gather them into reservations. I
have many things to write about, but must defer them for the present.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 290
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