One of the oldest comic strips, Katzenjammer Kids was drawn by Rudolph Dirks and debuted in 1897 in the first Sunday comics section along with the slightly older strip The Yellow Kid.
letter of mine.html">mine of date September 12th, in answer to a dispatch.html">dispatch.html">dispatch
which I informed him of a proposed movement against Wilmington,
"CITY POINT, VIRGINIA,
October11, 1864.html">1864--11 A.M.
"Your dispatch of October 10th received. Does it not look as if
the Mobile and Ohio and Memphis and Charleston roads to supply
he does this, he ought to be met and prevented from getting
not believe.html">believe you would meet Hood's army.html">army, but would be bushwhacked
are still left at home. Hood would probably strike for
damage upon us than we could upon the rebels by going south. If
but I must trust to your own judgment. I find I shall not be
movements, therefore, will be independent of mine; at least until
lines of road.html">road.html">road as he has to protect, could not prevent Hood from
you will find the rebels put much more on the defensive than
"MAJOR-GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN."
October 11--11 A.M.
"Hood moved his army from Palmetto Station across by Dallas and
threw one corps on my road at Acworth, and I was forced to
detachments along my line. This reduces my active force to a
defensive. With the twenty.html">twenty-five thousand men, and the bold
infinitely prefer to make a wreck of the road, and of the
send back all my wounded and worthless, and with my effective
may turn into Tennessee and Kentucky, but I believe he will be
would be on the offensive; instead of guessing at what he means
war is full twenty-five per cent. I can make Savannah,
"LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT."
October 11,1864--11.30 P.M.
"Your dispatch of to-day received. If you are satisfied the
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