General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, July 3, 1881—4:15 p.m.

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.,        

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3, 1881.    

Received at MANSFIELD, OHIO,

4.15 P.M.                

To Honorable John Sherman:

Dispatch received, I am this minute back from the White House. Doctor Bliss surgeon, in attendance on President Garfield, authorized me to report that all the symptoms continued most favorable, and that he believed in ultimate recovery.

W. T. SHERMAN.

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