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over his command at Nashville to General Sherman, he sent the latter a copy of the above letter for his guidance. Four days after thus unfolding his plan for the Atanta and Gulf campaign to General Halleck, and while General Sherman was on the Mississippi preparing his Meridian campaign, General Thomas, who was then in command at Chattanooga, was made acquainted with General Grant's design by the following letter: headquarters Military division of the Mississippi, Nashville, January 19, 1864. Major-General George H. Thomas, Chattanooga. Owing to the presence of Longstreet in East Tennessee it will be impossible to attempt any movement from your present position while he remains. The great number of veterans now absent and yet to be furloughed will be another difficulty in the way of any movement this Winter. Sherman, however, will be able to collect about twenty thousand men from that part of his command now along the Mississippi River available for a movement east