her
has acted. If A. J. was not callous to all that would affect
gentlemen generally, he would feel this rebuke stingingly. But
since he has betrayed the men who elected him he is proof against
such things.

"Yours very truly,
"Schuyler Colfax."

Upon the receipt of General Sherman's telegram I requested the
committee on military affairs to take no action upon his nomination,
as he did not desire, and would not accept, the proposed compliment.
This correspondence then followed:

"Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri.}
"St. Louis, Mo., February 17, 1868. }
"Dear Brother:-- . . . I have not yet got the order for the Atlantic
division, but it is coming by mail, and when received I must act.
I have asked the President to let me make my headquarters at New
York, instead of Washington, making my application of the ground
that my simply being in Washington will be universally construed
as rivalry to General Grant, a position which would be damaging to
me in the extreme.

"If I must come to Washington, it will be with a degree of reluctance
never before experienced. I would leave my family here on the
supposition that the change was temporary. I do not question the
President's right to make the new division, and I think Congress
would make a mistake to qualify his right. It would suffice for
them to nonconfirm the brevet of general. I will notify you by
telegraph when the matter is concluded.

"Affectionately,
"W. T. Sherman."

(Telegram.)
"Received Washington, February 20, 1868.
"From St. Louis, Mo., February 20, 1868.
"To General U. S. Grant:

"The President telegraphs that I may remain in my present command.
I write him a letter of thanks through you to-day. Congress should
not have for publication my letters to the President, unless the
President himself chooses to give them.

(Signed) "W. T. Sherman, Lieut. General."

"Headquarters Army of the United States.}
"Washington, February 21, 1868. }
"Dear Sir:--By General Grant's direction I inclose a copy of a
dispatch from General Sherman, seeming to indicate his preference
that the correspondence in question should not now be made public.

"Respectfully yours,
"C. B. Comstock, B. B. S.
"Hon. John Sherman, United States Senate."

A few days after this, General Sherman went to Washington in response
to the President's order, and while there had several interviews
with the President relating