Letter from Ulysses S. Grant to George Henry Thomas, November 24, 1863
written by Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1822-1885 (1863); edited by Thomas Budd Van Horne; in History of the Army of the Cumberland: Its Organization, Campaigns, and Battles, Written at the Request of Major-General George H. Thomas Chiefly from His Private Military Journal and Official and Other Documents Furnished by Him, vol. 1 (Cincinnati, OH, 1875), 489-489