WAR DEPARTMENT,
March 3, 1865 — 12
p.m.
Lieutenant-General
GRANT:
The President
directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General
Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army or on some minor
and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide,
discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President
holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or
conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages.
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 2 (Serial No. 96), p. 802
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