...1864, during the Union take over of Savannah, Sherman's Christmas greetings to President Lincoln read: "I beg to present you as a Christmas Gift the City of Savannah with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition and also about 25,000 bales of cotton."116 Within the time...

...(and, with considerable debt to Sherman, reelected) president: "His Excellency Prest. Lincoln — / beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah." South Carolina was next. "Here is where treason began," one of Sherman's men stated with risingfury,...

...advice of a US Treasury agent, AG Browne, Sherman telegraphed President Lincoln: / beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about 25,000 bales of cotton. Sherman's gesture not...

...December 21, 1864, Sherman occupied Savannah, at which time he telegraphed his famous message to President Lincoln: "I beg to present you as a Christmas Gift, the City of Savannah with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition; and also about 25,000 bales of Cotton." Since local officials...

...complete plans to box the Rebels inside the city. The next day, Sherman announced to the President, 'I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the City of Savannah.' In reply, Lincoln admitted his uneasiness over the operation and acquiesced only because 'you were...

...longer protect them. When Savannah fell into Union hands on December 21, 1864, Northern morale soared. "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah," Sherman wrote Lincoln, in a memorable line that was soon splashed across Northern newspapers. As the...

...in at, but I can't tell where he will come out at." On Christmas Day he received Sherman's dispatch, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah." Lincoln returned his "Many, many thanks"; this success affords "the obvious and immediate military...

...dedicated enemy. As soon as General Sherman entered Savannah he sent President Lincoln the following note: I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the City...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. To which Lincoln sent the following characteristic...

...15,000, commanded by Hardee, marched out to the north in order to avoid capture. That day Sherman wired Lincoln: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah. ..." Sherman turned north from Savannah toward a reckoning with the mother state of secession, South...

...Immediately after the capture of Savannah Sherman sent the following brief Note to President Lincoln: 10 "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the City of Savannah, with 150. heavy guns and plenty of Amunition, and allso about 25,000 bales of cotton." But after subsequent...