I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with G…

William Tecumseh Sherman
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I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want. ✨ William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865, The University of North Carolina Press
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