BIB_ID
102337
Accession number
MA 1015.8
Creator
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885, sender.
Display Date
City Point, Virginia, 1864 July 16.
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Purchased, 1924.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.5 x 20.1 cm
Notes
"Cipher" and "Copd" written in the top left corner. This appears to have been for telegram.
Written on letterhead stationery printed "Head Quarters Armies of the United States."
Written on letterhead stationery printed "Head Quarters Armies of the United States."
Provenance
Purchased from James F. Drake, #182, Freeman Sale, November 20, 1924.
Summary
Written after the Battle of Monocacy, Maryand, Grant informs Sherman that the Confederate Army around Washington may number 25,000 but it will be weakened by fortifying and using their supplies; instructs Sherman to use whatever he captures in his campaign near Atlanta, and Grant indicates he will work to lessen the number of troops needed for defenses near Washington and may "detach from here for other enterprises."
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