Friday, August 18, 2023

Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, July 1868

[ST. LOUIS, July 1868]

Of course Grant will be elected. I have just travelled with him for two weeks, and the curiosity to see him exhausted his and my patience. He is now cachéd down at his ranch eleven miles below the city. . . .

SOURCE: Rachel Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 320

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