Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General William S. Rosecrans, July 7, 1863

WAR DEPARTMENT,         
Washington, July 7, 1863.
Major-General ROSECRANS,
Tullahoma, Tenn.:

We have just received official information that Vicksburg surrendered to General Grant on the 4th of July. Lee's army overthrown; Grant victorious. You and your noble army now have the chance to give the finishing blow to the rebellion. Will you neglect the chance?

EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 23, Part 2 (Serial No. 35), p. 518

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