SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH, Major General. Autograph note signed ("W.T. Sherman") to Admiral David Dixon Porter, St. Louis, Missouri, 27 November 1865. One page, written on verso of a 2-page 4to letter to Sherman from Jervis Wolfery, cleanly separated and patched along one fold, Wolfery's letter in reference to a young man appointed as a Midshipman, informing Sherman that: "this young man was for a long time a rebel soldier, one of the meanest types, that while belonging to the army was back in the state committing all sorts of depredations. Was caught and tryed for a spy and was only released on account of his youth. His appointment [to Annapolis] was obtained through the Copperhead Representative Ritter...." On the verso, Sherman writes to Porter: "I send this letter to you that if the facts be so you can approach the Secretary [of the Navy]. I know the writer well. He is perfectly reliable. If General Jim Jacksons son wants any favor he should have it, for his father was the most enthusiastic Union man in Kentucky. He began the war a Colonel and was killed at Perryville [Tennessee], as a Genl. His family is I am told poor...."

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SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH, Major General. Autograph note signed ("W.T. Sherman") to Admiral David Dixon Porter, St. Louis, Missouri, 27 November 1865. One page, written on verso of a 2-page 4to letter to Sherman from Jervis Wolfery, cleanly separated and patched along one fold, Wolfery's letter in reference to a young man appointed as a Midshipman, informing Sherman that: "this young man was for a long time a rebel soldier, one of the meanest types, that while belonging to the army was back in the state committing all sorts of depredations. Was caught and tryed for a spy and was only released on account of his youth. His appointment [to Annapolis] was obtained through the Copperhead Representative Ritter...." On the verso, Sherman writes to Porter: "I send this letter to you that if the facts be so you can approach the Secretary [of the Navy]. I know the writer well. He is perfectly reliable. If General Jim Jacksons son wants any favor he should have it, for his father was the most enthusiastic Union man in Kentucky. He began the war a Colonel and was killed at Perryville [Tennessee], as a Genl. His family is I am told poor...."