Letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to James Birdseye McPherson, May 11, 1864
written by William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820-1891 (1864); 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. 2 (Cincinnati, OH, 1875), 68-68