We have already brought up stores enough to fill our wagons, and only await some few articles, and the arrival of some men who are marching up from the coast, to be off.
General Grant explained to me his orders to you, which, of course, are all right.

You can make reports direct to Washington or to General Grant, but keep me advised occasionally of the general state of affairs, that I may know what is happening.

I must give my undivided attention to matters here.

You will hear from a thousand sources pretty fair accounts of our next march.

Yours truly, W.T.SHERMAN, Major-General.
[LETTER FROM ADMIRAL DAHLGREN] SOUTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON FLAG-SHIP PHILADELPHIA, CHARLESTON, April 20, 1865 Major-General W.T.SHERMAN, commanding Armies of the Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi.
Mr DEAR GENERAL: I was much gratified by a sight of your handwriting, which has just reached me from Goldsboro'; it was very suggestive of a past to me, when these regions were the scene of your operations.
As you progressed through South Carolina, there was no manifestation of weakness or of an intention to abandon Charleston, until within a few hours of the fact.