Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman to General Ulysses S. Grant, February 17, 1868

[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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