Thursday, April 11, 2024

General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, July 4, 1881—1:40 p.m.

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co.,        
Dated, WASHINGTON, D.C., July 4, 1881.
Received at MANSFIELD, OHIO, 1.40.
To Honorable John Sherman:

I am just back from the White House. The President is reported to have passed a night of pain, which gave rise to unfavorable reports; but the attending physicians, Bliss, Barnes, Woodward, and Reyburn, have made public the bulletins. Each warrants us to hope for recovery. Everything here is as quiet as the Sabbath.

W. T. SHERMAN,
General.

SOURCE: Rachel Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 351

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