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- GLC#
- GLC06334
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 21 May 1865
- Author/Creator
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
- Title
- to H. Copper
- Place Written
- Alexandria, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 15.2 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Sherman defends the terms of surrender he gave to General Joseph Johnston, discussing his "Memorandum" (i.e., Johnston's surrender agreement), and claiming the document was written "quickly." Sherman writes that "Sam [U.S. Grant] never saw or heard about it." He further notes that it was "a mere naked memorandum for the new President [Andrew Johnson] to manipulate and give me what I had a right to ask some definite idea of the status of the surrendered army." Sherman claims that he didn't think it would be publicized. Written in a camp near Alexandria, Virginia, on stationary marked "Head-Quarters Military Division of the Mississippi."
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