[TELEGRAM.]
DATED, ST. LOUIS, Feb. 14, 1868.
RECEIVED AT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Feb. 14th.
To HON. JOHN SHERMAN:
Oppose confirmation of myself as Brevet General on ground that it is unprecedented, and that it is better not to extend the system of Brevets above Major-General. If I can't avoid coming to Washington, I may have to resign.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Lieutenant-General.
SOURCE: Rachel Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 306
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