. Souvenir illustré de Fairmount Park, Philadelphie, Pennsylvanie. H il a vécu à City point où vous ou les citoyens de Philadelphie préférerez peut-être. Il m'invite également à déclarer, en réponse à votre communication pour une histoire de la cabine, et en particulier à votre référence à un soi-disant conseil de guerre entre le Président Lincoln, le général Sherman et lui-même, qu'il n'a tenu aucun conseil de guerre à City point, ou à tout autre endroit à tout moment; Que les entretiens betweenMR. Lincoln, le général Sherman et lui-même, auquel vous faites allusion, étaient plutôt insignifiants que capitales, et que la seule conversation

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. Illustrated Souvenir of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. . h he lived at City Point to beplaced wherever you or the citizens of Philadelphia may prefer. He also directs me to state, in reply to your communication for a history of the cabin, and especiallyto your reference to a supposed council of war between President Lincoln, General Sherman and himself, that he held no council of war at City Point, or any other place at any time; that the interviews betweenMr. Lincoln, General Sherman and himself, to which you allude, were rather insignificant than momentous, and that the only conversation of any importance which did occur between them took place in a steamboat.It consisted of General Grants announcement that he intended to move out against General Lee at acertain time, with his directions to General Sherman to co-operate in North Carolina. The cabin, however, you will permit me to say, has an interest beyond that to which, in General Grantseyes, it seems entitled. It was built in November, 1864, so that the last four months of the rebellion.. immediately prior to the great movements wiiich resulted in its overthrow, were passed by him within itswalls. Here he received the reports of his great subordinates almost daily, and sent them each their ordersand their rewards. There he watched Shermans route as he came across the continent to the sea, and after-wards along his inemorable march through the Carolinas; from here despatched his instructions to Thomas, which resulted in the battle of Nashville and the discomfiture of Hood, so that concentration of any greatforce in front of Sherman was impossible. From here he directed Terry in the operations which culminatedin the fall of Fort Fisher. From here he directed Sherman and Schofield, bringing one northward throughthe Carolinas, and the other eastward in dead winter across the north, and then sending him by sea tomeet his great captain at Goldsboro, the co-operation being so complete that the two arrived, one fromN

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