General Sherman wrote President Lincoln, today 1864, presenting him “as a Christmas Gift the City of Savannah”: pic.twitter.com/Ln6hFy9OHw
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 22, 2015
“I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.”