A Just and Righteous Cause

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To without a moment’s delay recognize my obligation to other people, and show what has prompted the composition of these volumes, it is legitimate to express that in 1873, when positioned at Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory, and serenely fixed in amazing quarters, I got the accompanying telegram: Washington, D.C., Jan. third, 1873.To — Col. B. H. Grierson, tenth. Mounted force:— Do you need the detail for selecting service? W. T. Sherman, GeneralBeing around then so wonderfully arranged, and not having gone after the job, the inquiry flashed upon me so startlingly by the General of the Army was fairly difficult to reply, however after counseling Mrs. Grierson, it was concluded that the change to St. Louis, Missouri, at that point the station of the Superintendent of the General Mounted Recruiting Service, and just ninety miles from our home at Jacksonville, Illinois, would for some, reasons be favorable.