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do, and shall therefore, when I get to Atlanta the necessary stores, move south as soon as possible. Was he going without the permission which he here says he did not receive until November 2d? The fact is, however, that, notwithstanding the statement that Grant's dispatch of November 2d was his first assent to the March, he had really given such assent three weeks before, in the following answer to Sherman's telegram of October 11th, heretofore quoted: City Point, Va., October 11, 1864, 11:30 P. M. Major-General Sherman. Your dispatch of to-day received. If you are satisfied the trip to the sea-coast can be made, holding the line of the Tennessee River firmly, you may make it, destroying all the railroad south of Dalton or Chattanooga, as you think best. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. In this permission also, the condition of holding Tennessee firmly against Hood is prominent. The next day General Grant again telegraphed as follows: City Poin