WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH
Co.,
Dated, WASHINGTON, D.C., July 2, 1881.
Received at MANSFIELD, OHIO,
8.45 A.M.
To Honorable John Sherman:
Dispatch received.
Just come from White House. Saw and talked with General Garfield. Mind and
memory clear, and he is personally hopeful. The doctors shake their heads.
Situation most serious, but I cannot help hoping that the ball has not
traversed the cavity of the stomach, as the wound indicates. Mrs. Garfield and
all the family are with him.
W. T. SHERMAN.
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 350-1
