2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Autograph Letter Signed, 4p. folio, Atlanta, Georgia, September 25, 1864, and reads in part: “…We have very good times since the campaign ended…General Sherman appreciates the fatigues we have undergone and the service we have rendered the country hence he is very lax on us permitting us to rest, and visit friends in different corps…General Sherman is a peculiar man; looking at his plain exterior appearance a person who knew him not would take him for nothing higher than a lieutenant. This his notions correspond to his looks, they are plain but when you see them expressed on paper they always to the point, he has no hyprocacy in himm, whatever he thinks he will say, whether it meets with the approbation of politicians or not, one thing I admire in him he does not permit citizens and army nieuances to eat up rations that the soldiers often need on the negro subject he is all right, he does not believe in the equality of negroes to white men and let me tell you it is us he says ‘many of the fighting men are of the same opinion, Had Geo. B McClellan been nominated on a patriotic war platform I think he would had received the soldiers vote. Many of the soldiers do not believe in the elevation of the negroes and on that account would had voted for McClellan. But they don’t like the resolutions of the Chicago Platform…Soldiers do not like men who think this war is a failure…Why should those who never heard a bullet fly talk about an armistance when the soldies who are bresting the storm and perfectly know the animosity of the rebels; are willing to fight till the rebels offer terms which we can accept with honor to our arms and government….Some dispatches read to us stating that Sheridan had defeated Early in the Shenandoah valley…Such men as Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Farragut are our peacemakers; in them we put our confidence and a thousand vallandighams would not shake our faith. Atlanta is being stored with rations and we have all we can eat…..” More. VG.
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