Noah L. Jeffries to David K. Cartter, April 15, 1865

War Department,

Provost Marshal General's Bureau,

Washington, D. C, 15th April, 1865.

Hon. D. K. Carter, Chief Justice Supreme Court:

Please give me by bearer a pertinent description of the assassins of the President and Secretary, that I may telegraph it to the Provost Marshals on the frontier.

Yours truly,

N. L. Jeffries,

Acting Provost Marshal General.

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Editor’s Note: Corydon E. Fuller was dispatched as the bearer of this letter.

SOURCE: Corydon Eustathius Fuller, Reminiscences of James A. Garfield: With Notes Preliminary and Collateral, p. 383