[TELEGRAM.]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 1868,
FROM ST. LOUIS, Feb. 14, 1868.
TO GENERAL U. S. GRANT, Commander U. S. Army:
Your despatch informing me that the order for the Atlantic Division was issued, and that I was assigned to its command, is received.
I was in hopes I had escaped the danger, and now, were I prepared, should resign on the spot, as it requires no foresight to predict such must be the inevitable result in the end.
I will make one more desperate effort by mail, which please await.
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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