...ember 20. Sherman's army then entered, and on the 22d the general sent his famous despatch to the President, which reached him on Christmas eve: I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah , with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton. On December 8 General Butler had come over to see General Grant at headquarters, and said that as his troops...