On this point I have informed you by telegraph.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, U.S.GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, March 16, 1865.
Major-General W.T.SHERMAN, commanding military Division of the Mississippi.
GENERAL: Your interesting letter of the 12th inst.

is just received.

I have never felt any uneasiness for your safety, but I have felt great anxiety to know just how you were progressing.

I knew, or thought I did, that, with the magnificent army with you, you would come out safely somewhere.
To secure certain success, I deemed the capture of Wilmington of the greatest importance.

Butler came near losing that prize to us.
But Terry and Schofield have since retrieved his blunders, and I do not know but the first failure has been as valuable a success for the country as the capture of Fort Fisher.