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that Sheridan was the bearer of Peace propositions to Jefferson Davis from the North.
Grant had returned to City Point on the 19th of September, and on the 20th, at two P. M., he telegraphed to Sheridan: ‘I have just received the news of your great victory, and ordered each of the armies here to fire a salute of one hundred guns in honor of it. . . If practicable, push your success and make all you can of it.’
He was anxious that the full effect of the victory should be reaped at the West as well as the East, and inquired of Halleck: ‘Has the news of General Sheridan's battle been sent to General Sherman?
If not, please telegraph him.’
Neither did he forget that his forces on the Shenandoah were co-operating with those on the Potomac and the James.
On the 21st, he said to Butler: ‘Further news from Sheridan is better than the first we had. In pursuing the enemy up the Valley, they may be induced to detach from here.
Put every one on the look-out for any movement of the enemy.
Should any force be detached, we must either manage to bring them back, or gain an advantage here.’
To Halleck he explained: ‘When Sheridan commenced his movement, I thought it possible, though not probable, that Early might turn north, or send his cavalry north; and in that case, wanted troops in Washington, so that a force might be thrown suddenly into Hagerstown, to head them off. I think now it will be safe to send all new organizations here.’
New York Appleton 1885.
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