HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF
THE UNITED STATES,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
July 13, 1881.
Dear Brother: Nobody
now sees the President except the doctors, and we are compelled to base our
opinions on the bulletins which are sent by telegraph all around the country.
These warrant us to
believe that Garfield will recover, but after a long, painful process, leaving
him crippled or emaciated. It is too bad that the law is so unequal to the
punishment of the man who intended to murder him.
Yours,
W. T. SHERMAN.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 351-2
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