Thursday, July 4, 2024

General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, April 15, 1882

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.,    
Dated, Los ANGELES, CAL., April 15, 1882.
TO HON. JOHN SHERMAN,
        United States Senate, Washington, D.C.

Letter of eighth received. I do not expect to reach Washington, D. C., till about May 12th, and do not ask Congress to make any exception in my case. If officers generally are disqualified for efficient service at sixty-two years, the law should so declare it and no chance be allowed for a repetition of the terrible discrimination made in General Ord's case. Compensation to retired officers should vary according to length and quality of service, and a vote of thanks by Congress to general officers should have some value. There are only five such now surviving, and, like the Supreme Court, they should retain their salaries without other allowances. You may announce these as my opinions.

W. T. SHERMAN,    
General.

SOURCE: Rachel Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 356

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