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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 13: (search)
ting himself for history, this unjust paragraph is hunted up and given to the world, with the remark (page 207) that the letter now produced is a little more full than the one printed in the report of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, because in that copy I omitted the matter concerning General Thomas which now need no longer be withheld. Even if General Sherman believed the paragraph was just when he wrote it, he well knew it to be cruelly unjust when he printed it. On the 23d of December, only a few days after the date of this letter, he had written General Webster in the one already quoted: I approve of Thomas' allowing Hood to come north far enough to enable him to concentrate his own men, though I would have preferred that Hood should have been checked about Columbia. And in the text of his Memoirs, only a few pages in advance of where he reproduces this paragraph, after enumerating all the force available about Pulaski, he writes, as already quoted: Th