Sunday, February 4, 2018

Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, March 25, 1865 – Received 5 p.m.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
March 25, 1865. (Received 5 p.m.)
Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:

I am here within five miles of the scene of this morning's action. I have nothing to add to what General Meade reports, except that I have seen the prisoners myself, and they look like there might be the number he states — l,600.

A. LINCOLN.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I Volume 46, Part 3 (Serial No. 97), p. 109

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