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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Appendix to Chapter XXVIII . (search)
Appendix to Chapter XXVIII.
General Halleck to General Grant. Washington, D. C., October 2, 1864. Lieutenant-General Grant, City Point:
General: Some time since General Sherman asked my opinion in regard to his operations after the capture of Atlanta.
While free to give advice to the best of my ability, I felt it my duty to refer him to you for instructions, not being advised of your views on that subject.
I presume, from his dispatches, that you have corresponded upon the subject, and perhaps his plan of future operations has already been decided upon.
At one time he seemed most decidedly of opinion that he ought to operate by Montgomery and Selma, and connect himself with Canby and Farragut on the Alabama river, thus severing the northern part of Georgia and Alabama, and almost Mississippi, from the rebel confederacy.
This view was taken in his letters to General Canby, copies of which were sent to the Adjutant-General's office, and in his opinion I fully concurr