Thursday, April 11, 2024

General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, July13, 1881

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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