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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 23 (search)
wing: Savannah, Georgia, December 22, 1864. To His Excellency President Lincoln, Washington, D. C.: I beg to present you as a Christmthat festive day; and it was in the answer to this dispatch that Mr. Lincoln wrote me the letter of December 28th, already given, beginning wt your understanding is in regard to the acts of Congress and President Lincoln's proclamation touching the colored people in the rebel States? Answer. So far as I understand President Lincoln's proclamation to the rebel States, it is, that if they will lay down their arms and sity to him and his negro policy; but I shall always believe that Mr. Lincoln, though a civilian, knew better, and appreciated my motives and The idea that such men should have been permitted to hang around Mr. Lincoln, to torture his life by suspicions of the officers who were toilcontracts, involving from six to ten thousand bales, indorsed by Mr. Lincoln, have been shown me, but were not in such a form as to amount to
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 22: campaign of the Carolinas. February and March, 1866. (search)
es of railroad-men there to build them up, and have ordered stock to run them. We have abundance of it idle from the non-use of the Virginia roads. I have taken every precaution to have supplies ready for you wherever you may turn up. I did this before when you left Atlanta, and regret that they did not reach you promptly when you reached salt-water . . . . Alexander Stephens, R. M. T. Hunter, and Judge Campbell, are now at my headquarters, very desirous of going to Washington to see Mr. Lincoln, informally, on the subject of peace. The peace feeling within the rebel lines is gaining ground rapidly. This, however, should not relax our energies in the least, but should stimulate us to greater activity. I have received your very kind letters, in which you say you would decline, or are opposed to, promotion. No one would be more pleased at your advancement than I, and if you should be placed in my position, and I put subordinate, it would not change our personal relations in t
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
hour or so, he remarked that the President, Mr. Lincoln, was then on board the steamer River Queen,down to the wharf, went on board, and found Mr. Lincoln alone, in the after-cabin. He remembered m without a fight. I again repeat that, had Mr. Lincoln lived, he would have shouldered all the resdelayed by the driver taking a wrong road. Mrs. Lincoln, seeing Mrs. Ord and Captain Barnes riding rolonged indefinitely. I then remembered Mr. Lincoln's repeated expression that he wanted the rer. Stanton, announcing the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, the attempt on the life of Mr. Seward and gether I showed him the dispatch announcing Mr. Lincoln's assassination, and watched him closely. , and then I showed the dispatch announcing Mr. Lincoln's death. I cautioned the officers to watchssible. Then recalling the conversation of Mr. Lincoln, at City Point, I sat down at the table, anto the South, who had begun to realize that Mr. Lincoln was the best friend they had. I cannot b[27 more...]