...famous despatch, which sent such gladness to the hearts of loyal men throughout the Union : — " 1 beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, and about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." It is hardly possible...

...dispatch to President Lincoln. " DECEMBER. 22, 1864. To His Excellency, President Lincoln, Washington, DC: I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the City of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and about 20,000 bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN." In the meantime Grant had been moving...

...telegram: SAVANNAH, Georgia, December 22, 1364. To His EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT LINCOLN, WASHINGTON, DC I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city...; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, MAJOR GENERAL. Sherman had sent the message by vessel to Fortress Monroe, whence it was...

...pessimistic, but his doubts did not disappear until he received a telegram from Sherman on December 25: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition and also about 25000 bales of cotton." During the same time...

...Lincoln that was rushed by boat to Fort Monroe on the Virginia coast and then telegraphed to Washington: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Later he compiled a more detailed summary of the havoc his 62,000 soldiers had wrought on their march...

...this day in 1864, General William T. Sherman sent a message to President Abraham Lincoln from Georgia: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah." General Sherman meant that he had burned the entire city of Savannah to the ground at the end of the...

...secession. The Federals occupied Savannah on lhe twenty-first Sherman wired President Lincoln. "l heg to present you. as a Christmas gift. the city of Savannah. with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition: also ahout 25.000 hales of cotton." Estimated Casualties:...

...Union rule. Sherman graciously sent word to President Lincoln of his victory. "I beg to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." In February, Sherman and his men left Savannah and began a 50-day, and 425-mile march through South...

...people can get to heaven!" 26 On Christmas, Lincoln received a jovial despatch from General Sherman: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition and also about 25000 bales of cotton" (HM 32383). Lincoln replied...

...president of the railroad was erected in 1883, symbolically displacing Tomochichi's grave in Wright Square. "I beg to present you as a Christmas Gift, the City of Savannah..." A brief history of Savannah. Georgia 1850-I86S rich and prosperous, antebellum Savannah was praised...