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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
ted, viz., under-clothing, soap, combs, scissors, etc.--all needed to keep them in health — and to send these stores with a train, and an officer to issue them. General Hood, on the 24th, promptly consented, and I telegraphed to my friend Mr. James E. Yeatman, Vice-President of the Sanitary Commission at St. Louis, to send us all the under-clothing and soap he could spare, specifying twelve hundred fine-tooth combs, and four hundred pairs of shears to cut hair. These articles indicate the plague that most afflicted our prisoners at Andersonville. Mr. Yeatman promptly responded to my request, expressed the articles, but they did not reach Andersonville in time, for the prisoners were soon after removed; these supplies did, however, finally overtake them at Jacksonville, Florida, just before the war closed. On the 28th I received from General Grant two dispatches: City Point, Virginia, September 27, 1864--8.30 A. M. Major-General Sherman: It is evident, from the tone of