Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) To: Major General E.O.C. Ord
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08012.07 Author/Creator: Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) Place Written: Saint Louis, MO Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1867/03/16 Pagination: 3 p. 20.9 cm x 26.7 cm Order a Copy
Letter to Ord advising Ord on his difficult and undesirous post-war [Reconstruction] command in Arkansas and Misssissippi: "...your new command...will be excedingly vexatious, more especially, as now you have in addition to military duties civil functions...You will have all sorts of enemies round you: And Congress ready to take off your head..." "Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri " letterhead.
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