"I find the people of Memphis much more resigned and less presumptuous at first. Your orders about property and mine about 'niggers' make them feel that they can be hurt, and they are about as sensitive about their property as Yankees. I believe in universal confiscation and colonization. Some Union people have been expelled from Raleigh. I have taken some of the richest Rebels and will compel them to buy and pay for all of the land, horses, cattle, and effects, as well as damages, and let the Union owner deed his property to one or more of them. This they don't like at all."-- Letter to General Grant, Memphis August 17, 1862
