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U.S. Grant ALS

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U.S. Grant ALS
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Ulysses S. Grant autograph letter signed, ''U.S. Grant'', dated ''Before Vicksburg / 27 February 1863''. Letter, to Major General S.A. Hulburt expresses Grant's disappointment that a planned cavalry raid to sever the Vicksburg & Jackson railroad line was aborted by General C.S. Hamilton, even though it appeared that the defenses were as vulnerable as they might ever be. Destroying it would have deprived Vicksburg of land transport for troops and supplies. Grant asks Hurlbut, Hamilton's superior officer and commander of the XVI Corps, to reorder the raid. Letter reads in part, ''...I was a good deal disappointed that Gen. Hamilton should have countermanded the order for the expedition which you had fitted out for the purpose of cutting the road east from Vicksburg, particularly on such flimsy grounds. We do not expect the Miss C[entral]. R.R. and Mobile & Ohio rail-roads to be left entirely unprotected and the number of troops shown to be there by Gen Dodges dispatch is as few as could be expected at any time. The way you had the expedition fitted out I think it must have succeeded. I wish you would try it again unless your information is such that you would deem it an act of folly to send them...'' Letter, written on 2pp., front and verso, has toning throughout, else near fine condition.