President Abraham Lincoln Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman    
   

            WASHINGTON, D. C., September 27, 1864 ---- 9 A. M.
Major-General SHERMAN, Atlanta:
 
You say Jeff. Davis is on a visit to General Hood. I judge that Brown and Stephens are the objects of his visit.
 
                      A. Lincoln, President of the United States.
 
Sherman's Reply.
 
                HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
                      IN THE FIELD, Atlanta, Georgia, September 28, 1864
 
President LINCOLN, Washington, D. C.:
   I have positive knowledge that Mr. Davis made a speech at Macon, on the 22nd, which I mailed to General Halleck yesterday. It was bitter against Jos. Johnston and Governor Brown. The militia are on furlough. Brown is at Milledgeville, trying to get a Legislature to meet next month, but he is afraid to act unless in concert with other Governors. Judge Wright, of Rome, has been here, and Messrs. Hill and Nelson, former members of Congress, are here now, and will go to meet Wright at Rome, and then go back to Madison and Milledgeville.

   Great efforts are being made to reenforce Hood's army, and to break up my railroads, and I should have at once a good reserve force at Nashville. It would have a bad effect, if I were forced to send back any considerable part of my army to guard roads, so as to weaken me to an extent that I could not act offensively if the occasion calls for it.
 
                         W. T. Sherman, Major-General.