October 12, 1864: U.S. Grant Telegram to Sherman

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Head Quarters Armies of the United States,

City Point Va. Oct. 12^th 1864.

Maj. Gen. Sherman, Kingston Ga.

Your dispatch of to-day received. If you are satisfied the trip to the sea coast can be made holding the line of the Tennessee river firmly you may make it destroying all the rail-road South of Dalton or Chattanooga as you think best.

U.S. Grant

Lt. Gen.

Citation:Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), autograph telegram signed. City Point, Va.,12 October 1864. AMs 545/19.2