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City Point, Va, Dec. 11th 1864
Maj. Gen. Halleck, Washington
There has been no news from Warren since the evening after he left. The Richmond papers however contain no news of any engagement with him beyond a rumored fight between Hampton’s Cavalry and some of his forces. A force of some 8,000 men were sent South yesterday under Gen. Potter to secure his return. The latest news contained in Richmond papers of yesterday from Sherman’s army says that on the 7th he was East of the Ogechie twenty-five miles from Savannah nearing on that place. On the 6th he had marched his army eighteen miles.
U.S. Grant
Lt. Gen.
Citation: Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) autograph letter signed to Henry W. Halleck. City Point, Va., 11 December 1864. AMs 358/3