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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
o. H. Thomas, Major-General U. S. Volunteers. General Grant having been made Lieutenant General, and ordered to Washington, summoned General Sherman, who had returned from Meridian, to Nashville, which latter point he reached on the 17th of March, 1864. On that day he was assigned to the command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, and immediately afterward left with General Grant, accompanying the latter, then on his way to Washington, as far as the Burnet House, in Cincinnati,make his way is secured. Very respectfully your obedient servant, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. That General Sherman had heard nothing of the plan for the Spring campaign up to the time of his arrival in Nashville, about the 17th of March, 1864, is quite evident from the following extracts from one of his own letters: headquarters Department of the Tennessee, Memphis, March 14th, 1864. Major-General McPHERSON, commanding, etc., Vicksburg. dear General: * * * * I am sum