You may be surprised
to learn that in a few days I will go to New York City and then to some place
to me still unknown. Tell mother that she will have no more writing to Fort
Moultrie for a long time, as I will, in all probability, be absent two years. I
must be at New York on the 1st of May, and then shall learn my future station,
which may possibly be at the West.
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And later, still
hoping to be sent to Texas, he writes:
Direct a letter to
me, if you want to write, at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor. It should reach
there at or before the 1st of May or I won't get it. Tell me then whether your
railroad is done from the lake, and what conveniences there are to reach
Columbus, for it is in the reach of probability that I may receive orders for
New Orleans or Texas, and be allowed to steer my own course, in which case I
might give you a hasty call, if it wouldn't delay me too long. . . .
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, pp. 30-1
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