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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08012.06 |
| From Archive Folder | Letters from William Tecumseh Sherman to Edward O. C. Ord |
| Title | Letter from William T. Sherman to Major General E. O. C. Ord regarding his difficult position in Arkansas |
| Date | 12 March 1867 |
| Author | Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) |
| Recipient | Ord, Edward |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Letter to Ord discussing Ord's difficult and undesirous post-war [Reconstruction] duties in Arkansas, and the approaching war out west against the Sioux and other Indians: "...In case you become military Governor of Mississippi & Arkansas with inadequate form & scarcity of money--Grant and the President unable to help you with money, men, orders, or advice, the [People] pitching into you as a tyrant, satrap & monster, & Congress holding you officially & personally responsible for every row in which a darkey gets worsted, you will wish you were back at Detroit, California or some other Post..." |
| Subjects | Military History Union General Reconstruction American Indian History Westward Expansion American West President African American History Congress |
| People | Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891) Ord, Edward Otho Cresap (1818-1883) |
| Place written | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Theme | Reconstruction; Government & Politics; Native Americans; African Americans |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Comrade |