I find I shall not be able to send a force from here to act with you on Savannah.

Your movements, therefore, will be independent of mine; at least until the fall of Richmond takes place.
I am afraid Thomas, with such lines of road as he has to protect, could not prevent Hood from going north.

With Wilson turned loose, with all your cavalry, you will find the rebels put much more on the defensive than heretofore.
"U.

S.GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
"MAJOR-GENERAL W.T.SHERMAN." "KINGSTON, GEORGIA, "October 11--11 A.M.
"Hood moved his army from Palmetto Station across by Dallas and Cedartown, and is now on the Coosa River, south of Rome.

He threw one corps on my road at Acworth, and I was forced to follow.