Autograph telegram signed : City Point, Va., to William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864 Oct. 12.

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Autograph telegram signed : City Point, Va., to William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864 Oct. 12.

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Grant gives permission to Sherman to begin his famous march through Georgia, which cut the South in two and prevented supplies from reaching Lee in Virginia.

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