...t's dispatch of November 2d, given above, he says: This [November 2d] was the first time that General Grant assented to the March to the Sea. And yet, on November 1st, as appears in a dispatch to General Grant , given in one of General Sherman's published reports, he said: Hood's cavalry may do a good deal of damage, and I have sent Wilson back with all dismounted cavalry, retaining only about four tho...