Thursday, February 1, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, April 9, 1865 – 9:30 p.m.

WAR DEPARTMENT,         
Washington, April 9, 1865 9.30 p.m.
Lieutenant-General GRANT:

Thanks be to Almighty God for the great victory with which he has this day crowned you and the gallant army under your command. The thanks of this Department and of the Government, and of the people of the United States, their reverence and honor, have been deserved and will be rendered to you and the brave and gallant officers and soldiers of your army for all time.

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 46, Part 3 (Serial No. 97), p. 663-4

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