Friday, February 9, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, January 6, 1865 – 3 p.m.

FORT MONROE, January 6, 1865 — 3 p.m.
General GRANT:

I arrived here an hour ago en route for Savannah, by way of Hilton Head, and shall remain until to-morrow. Have you any word you wish to send, or any military news? Quartermaster-General, Townsend, and Barnes are with me.

E. 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 47, Part 2 (Serial No. 99), p. 18

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