Monday, February 5, 2018

Note of Major T. T. Eckert, March 9, 1865 – 10 a.m.

MARCH 9 10 a.m.

NOTE. — The above dispatch was handed me by the Secretary of War at his house last evening, with the date of the President's letter left blank for me to fill up, but owing to the absence of the Secretary's confidential clerk I could not get it till this hour.

Very respectfully,
T. T. ECKERT,      
Major, &c.

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. 887

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