WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City,
April 7, 1865 — 10 a.m.
Major-General Dix,
New York:
General Sheridan attacked and routed Lee's army yesterday,
capturing Generals Ewell, Kershaw, Barton, Corse, and many other general
officers, several thousand prisoners, and a large number of cannon, and expects
to force Lee to surrender all that is left of his army. Details will be given
speedily as possible, but the telegraph is working badly.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
(Same to Lieutenant-General Scott, Governors, &c.)
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. 640
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