August 25 Saturday – In Elmira Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore, responding to his letter of Aug. 22. One particular stock had been in the hands of Henry C. Robinson, who had procured it for Sam originally. Sam directed Whitmore to sell the rest. He planned to go to Chicago for the Sept. 19-20 annual reunion of the Army of the Cumberland, and wrote that in his “16 working-days left” he hoped to add “another 120,000 words to” CY. He also hoped to have the book finished by the end of October and publish it a year later [MTP]. Note: Sam’s plans were not to be realized.