Dispatch
Unknown to Thomas W. Sherman, October 18, 1861
Washington
Washington, October 18, 1861.
General THOMAS W. SHERMAN, Annapolis, Md.: Your dispatch of yesterday received and shown to General McClellan. Ihave promised him to not break his army here without his consent. I do not think I shall go to Annapolis.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, N. Alabama, S.W. Virginia, 1861–62. Location: Washington. Summary: A military official informs General Sherman that McClellan's army will not be divided without his approval and declines to visit Annapolis as previously considered.
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Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 6
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