1867/03/16
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Autograph letter signed
Title: To: Major General E.O.C. Ord
Letter to Ord advising Ord on his difficult and undesirous post-war [Reconstruction] command in Arkansas and Misssissippi: "...your new command...will be excedingly vexatious, more especially, as now you have in addition to military duties civil functions...You will have all sorts of enemies round you: And Congress ready to take off your head..." "Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri " letterhead.
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