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Ulysses S. Grant, City Point, Virginia, telegram to Major General Henry Halleck :

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Description: Grant reports that a dispatch from Nashville shows enemy scattered, but no attack has yet been made by Major General George H. Thomas. He requests Halleck to relieve Thomas and place John M. Schofield in command.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1864 December 9.
Call number: mssHM 20989
Creator: Grant, Ulysses S (1822-1885)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of August 1928. Letters were initially preserved by Grant's aide-de-camp Major George Keller Leet.
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Associated people: Halleck, H. W. (1815-1872,)
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