ALS signed “W. T. Sherman, General,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 10, Headquarters Army of the United States letterhead, February 14, 1871. Letter to General Manning Ferguson Force, in part: "I have your dispatch and at once forward you a favor of notice which please modify to suit the occasion, have published in the Cincinnati papers, and the moment I have the exact form in which you print it, I will have the same published here and cause the newspaper men who are as thick as grasshoppers here to circulate it…I am very much pleased at your promptness, and assure you that when men work willingly I feel a perfect willingness to lend a hand, but when a thing drags, for want of spirit or interest, I let it drop." In fine condition.
Manning Ferguson Force was a lawyer, judge, and soldier from Ohio (1824-1899) who became known as the commander of the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was promoted to major general of volunteers in March 1865 and, following the Battle of Atlanta, he participated in Sherman's March to the Sea. Force was a recipient of the Army Medal of Honor for gallantry in action.
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