 | William Tecumseh Sherman - 1875 - 428 pages
...1864. To His Excellency President LINCOLN, Washington, DC : I beg to present yon as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy...about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major- General. This message actually reached him on Christmas-eve, was extensively published in the... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - 1876 - 842 pages
...to present you as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns aud plenty of ammunition, also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major- General. This message actually reached him on Christmas-eve, was extensively published in the... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - 1886 - 622 pages
...1864. To Hit Excellency President LINCOLN, Washington, DC : I beg to present you as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy...also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton. WT SHEEMAN, Major- General. This message actually reached him on Christmas-eve, was extensively published... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - 1889 - 628 pages
...beg to present yon as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy gnns and plenty of ammunition, also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton. WT SHEBMAN, Major- General. answer to this dispatch that Mr. Lincoln wrote me the letter of December 28th,... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1891 - 528 pages
...1864), and nine days later he sent the following message to the President,*— " SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, Dec. 22, 1864. "To his Excellency, President Lincoln, Washington,...twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. " WT SHERMAN, Major- General! ' * Sherman's men had long before come to the conclusion that the sea-coast was not... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1891 - 516 pages
...1864), and nine days later he sent the following message to the President, — "SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, Dec. 22, 1864. " To his Excellency, President Lincoln,...twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. "WT SHERMAN, Major-General."1 Sherman's men had long before come to the conclusion that the sea-coast was not their... | |
 | David Bittle Floyd - 1893 - 474 pages
...General Sherman sent President Lincoln the following telegram: SAVANNAH, GA., December 22, 1864. To H1s EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT LINCOLN, Washington, DC I beg...thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major-General. On the afternoon of the 22d, our Division went into camp a short distance northwest of the city on... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1897 - 526 pages
...Fancy the delight of Lincoln, then, when on the Christmas eve of 1864, he received this telegram : SAVANNAH, Georgia, December 22, 1864. To His EXCELLENCY,...twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, MAJOR GENERAL. Sherman had sent the message by vessel to Fortress Monroe, whence it was telegraphed... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1897 - 524 pages
...when on the Christmas eve of 1864, he received this telegram: SAVANNAH, Georgia, December 22, 1364. To His EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT LINCOLN, WASHINGTON,...twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, MAJOR GENERAL. Sherman had sent the message by vessel to Fortress Monroe, whence it was telegraphed... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1898 - 586 pages
...of Mobile. — As we have seen, one of the 1 The following was Sherman's message to the President : "SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, December 22, 1864. " To his Excellency,...thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major-General." JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON. leading purposes of the North was to prevent, by blockade, the export of Southern... | |
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, December 22, 1864. To His EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT LINCOLN, WASHINGTON, DC I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales... 
