His Excellency the PRESIDENT:
General Logan commands the corps referred to in your dispatch. I will see General Sherman in a few days and consult him about the transfer, and answer.
U.S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.
[Telegram.]
NASHVILLE, TENN., March 17, 1864.
His Excellency A. LINCOLN,
President of the United States:
General Sherman is here. He consents to the transfer of General Logan to the Seventeenth Corps and the appointment of General F.P. Blair to the Fifteenth Corps.
U.S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.
[Telegram.]
HUNTSVILLE, ALA., March 26, 1864.