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Sherman to be unjustly dealt with.
You could not have said this had you thought Mr. Stanton himself had already dealt unjustly by him, by publishing the reasons above quoted, and which had been in print in every leading newspaper of the country four days before you wrote your letter.
I honored and admired General Sherman.
I knew him personally and enjoyed the honor of his friendship.
No more patriotic American, no braver or more faithful soldier ever lived.
But I also honored and admired Mr. Stanton, whose biography I have undertaken, and whose private papers are in my keeping; and I cannot remain silent when one of the greatest and wisest of his official acts is brought forward, misstated, and perverted in a useless effort to show that General Sherman was right when he himself admitted (with the concurrence of Senator Sherman) that he was wrong.
Very truly yours,
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Reunion of
Company D
.
First regiment
Virginia Cavalry
, C. S. A.
chapter 1.6chapter 1.7chapter 1.8chapter 1.9
Addenda.
chapter 1.11
The Medical history of the
Confederate States
Army and Navy
chapter 1.13chapter 1.14chapter 1.15
The life and character of
William
L.
Saunders
,
Ll.D.
chapter 1.17chapter 1.18
Unveiling of the monument to the
Richmond Howitzers
chapter 1.20chapter 1.21
The
private
Infantryman
.
chapter 1.23chapter 1.24chapter 1.25
The man who killed
General
A.
P.
Hill
.
Unveiling of the statue of
General
Ambrose
Powell
Hill
at
Richmond, Virginia
,
May
30
,
1892
.
General
David
Bullock
Harris
,
C. S. A.
chapter 1.29
Index.
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May
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1892
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Richmond, VA. 1892.
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