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1:30 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 Point, October 12, 1864, 1 P. M. General Sherman, Kingston. On reflection I think better of your proposition. It will be much better to go south than to be forced to come north. You will, no doubt, clear the country where you go of railroad tracks and supplies. * * * * U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. General Sherman, on page 154, says he received no answer to his Kingston dispatch at the time. The reason is obvious. It was dated 11:30 P. M. of the 11th, and the next day Sherman left for Rome.