SHERMAN, WILLIAM T., General. Autograph letter signed ("W.T. Sherman/Maj. Gen Comdg") TO MAJOR GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT, Head Quarters, Camp on Bear Creek, 4 July 1863. 2 pages, 4to, 248 x 198mm (9 x 7 in.), top edge of second leaf tipped to a larger sheet . Fine. SHERMAN CONGRATULATES GRANT ON THE VICTORY AT VICKSBURG An historic letter to Grant, his friend and superior officer, under whom he commanded a Corps in earlier phases of the long and difficult Vicksburg campaign. He has just received word of the fall of the Confederate stronghold: "My dear General, The telegraph has just announced to me that Vicksburg is ours, its garrison will march out, stack arms & return...as Prisoners of War and that you will occupy the City...I can hardly contain myself. Surely I will not punish any soldier for being 'loco happy' this most Glorious Anniversary of the birth of a Nation..." Knowing "the honesty, modesty & purity of your nature," he writes, and "as a man & soldier, and ardent friend of yours, I warn you against the incense of flattery that will fill our Land...Be natural and yourself...To me the delicacy with which you have treated a brave but deluded enemy is more eloquent than the most gorgeous oratory..." But, as both Sherman and Grant well knew, the war was far from over: "This is a day of jubilee. A day of rejoicing...And I would like to hear the shouts of my old & patient troops. But...already are my orders out to give one big huzza and sling the knapsack for new fields. Tuttle will march at once to Mississippi...and I will shift my headquarters. MacArthur will clear the road of obstructions...and as soon as Ord's & Steele's columns are gone out, I will push ahead...[T]he first thing is to clear Black River, and get up on the high ground ahead...I did want rest, but I ask nothing until the Mississippi River is ours. And Sunday and Fourth of July are nothing to Americans until the River of our greatness is free as God made it. Though in the background as I ever wish to be in Civil War, I feel that I have labored some to secure this Glorious Result...your Friend, W.T. Sherman..."
SHERMAN, WILLIAM T., General. Autograph letter signed ("W.T. Sherman/Maj. Gen Comdg") TO MAJOR GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT, Head Quarters, Camp on Bear Creek, 4 July 1863. 2 pages, 4to, 248 x 198mm (9 x 7 in.), top edge of second leaf tipped to a larger sheet . Fine. SHERMAN CONGRATULATES GRANT ON THE VICTORY AT VICKSBURG An historic letter to Grant, his friend and superior officer, under whom he commanded a Corps in earlier phases of the long and difficult Vicksburg campaign. He has just received word of the fall of the Confederate stronghold: "My dear General, The telegraph has just announced to me that Vicksburg is ours, its garrison will march out, stack arms & return...as Prisoners of War and that you will occupy the City...I can hardly contain myself. Surely I will not punish any soldier for being 'loco happy' this most Glorious Anniversary of the birth of a Nation..." Knowing "the honesty, modesty & purity of your nature," he writes, and "as a man & soldier, and ardent friend of yours, I warn you against the incense of flattery that will fill our Land...Be natural and yourself...To me the delicacy with which you have treated a brave but deluded enemy is more eloquent than the most gorgeous oratory..." But, as both Sherman and Grant well knew, the war was far from over: "This is a day of jubilee. A day of rejoicing...And I would like to hear the shouts of my old & patient troops. But...already are my orders out to give one big huzza and sling the knapsack for new fields. Tuttle will march at once to Mississippi...and I will shift my headquarters. MacArthur will clear the road of obstructions...and as soon as Ord's & Steele's columns are gone out, I will push ahead...[T]he first thing is to clear Black River, and get up on the high ground ahead...I did want rest, but I ask nothing until the Mississippi River is ours. And Sunday and Fourth of July are nothing to Americans until the River of our greatness is free as God made it. Though in the background as I ever wish to be in Civil War, I feel that I have labored some to secure this Glorious Result...your Friend, W.T. Sherman..."
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