States that it would not be right for him to order Colonel Thomas to discharge Mr. Gannett for the sake of another man, no matter how worthy; and states that Quarter Masters are all getting expenses down to the pre-war standard. If he were young, he 'would do common labor before [he] would become dependent on one of these Government clerkships.' Title: Letter signed Sherman, Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri, Saint Louis, to Eliot, Washington University, June 26, 1868 . 26 June 1868. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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