[TELEGRAM.]
RECEIVED, WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 1868.
FROM ST. Louis, Mo., Feb. 20, 1868.
TO GENERAL U. S. GRANT:
The President telegraphs that I may remain in my present command. I write him a letter of thanks through you to-day. Congress should not have for publication my letters to the President, unless the President himself chooses to give them.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Lieutenant-General.
SOURCE: Rachel Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 307
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