Friday, August 18, 2023

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

[PHILADELPHIA, September 1868.]

Grant will surely be elected. If not, we shall have the devil to pay, and shall have to fight all our old political issues over again. All indications are now in favor of the overwhelming defeat of Seymour on account of the rebel and Copperhead stand of the New York convention. . .

SOURCE: Rachel Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 320-1

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