Dec 25th 1864
We get Shermans official Dispatch this morning. He has taken Savannah without a fight. The Rebel Army escaped. Large Stores of all kinds, near 200 Cannon and 25000 Bales of Cotton fell into our hands. Charleston and Willmington must follow soon, and then I think that Sherman will have to come and take Richmond if we take it very soon. Genl Grant is dogged and stuborn and persistent and uses “brute force” to do all that he does. He looses too many men. He does not posess the Military talent, the comprehensive brain of Sherman, the “Great Flanker.” When Grant took Vicksburgh and won his most important victori[e]s He had Sherman with him. How much his success was owing to that fact time may yet determine. Sherman stands far above Grant now in the estimation of the Country and the World.