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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
College Hill, ten miles from Oxford, whence I reported to General Grant in Oxford. On the 8th I received the following letter: Oxford, Mississippi, December 8, 1862.--Morning. General Sherman, College Hill. dear General: The following is a copy of dispatch just received from Washington: Washington, December 7, 1s way up-stream from New Orleans, while we were working down. That day General Grant dispatched to General Halleck, in Washington, as follows: Oxford, December 8, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, Washington, D. C.: General Sherman will command the expedition down the Mississippi. He will have a force of about forty thter of instructions in his own handwriting, which I now possess: headquarters Thirteenth Army Corps, Department of the Tennessee, Oxford, Mississippi, December 8, 1862. Major-General W. T. Sherman, commanding Right Wing Army in the Field, present. General: You will proceed with as little delay as practicable to Memphis,