FORT RICHARDSON, TEXAS, May 18, 1871.
Dear Brother: I have been skirting the frontier of Texas, from San Antonio to this place.
Now, for the first time, we meet mails coming from the direction of St. Louis, and have New York "Heralds " of May 1, 2, and 3. I see the "Herald" is out in full blast for me as President. You may say for me and publish it too, that in no event and under no circumstances will I ever be a candidate for President or any other political office; and I mean every word of it. . . .
Affectionately, etc.,
W. T. SHERMAN.
SOURCE: Rachel Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 330
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