Letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to Ellen Sherman, January 13, 1861
written by William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820-1891 (1861); edited by Walter Lynwood Fleming; in General W.T. Sherman as College President: a Collection of Letters, Documents, and Other Material, Chiefly from Private sources, relating to the life and Activities of General William Tecumseh Sherman, to the Early Years of Louisiana State University, and to the Stirring Conditions existing in the South on the Eve of the Civil War, 1859-1861 (Arthur H. Clark Co., 1912), 456-459