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feelings.
I was outraged beyond measure, and was resolved to resent the insult, cost what it might.’
This ridicule of
Halleck is based upon a perfectly evident misprint of ‘
Goldsboro’ for ‘
Greensboro’ in transmitting
Halleck's dispatch of the 26th April, as it was through the latter place the rebel Cabinet passed.
How little reason he had for this outburst upon the question of
Jeff. Davis' gold, will appear from the fact that the day before this telegram of
Halleck's was written,
General Sherman had himself telegraphed substantially the same thing to
Admiral Dahlgren, and also to
General Gillmore.
The following is
Sherman's gold dispatch:
I expect
Johnston will surrender his army.
We have had much negotiation, and things are settling down to the terms of
Lee's army.
Jeff. Davis and his Cabinet, with considerable specie, is making his way toward
Cuba.
He passed
Charlotte, going south, on the 23d, and I think he will try to reach the
Florida coast either at
Cedar Keys or lower down.
It would be well to catch him. Can't you watch the
East coast, and send word round to the
West coast?
The facts presented from the records in this chapter, are quite sufficient to show the totally unreliable character of what the
General of the army has written reflecting upon the great War
Secretary.
