Monday, January 29, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Lafayette C. Baker, April 15, 1865 – 3:20 p.m.

WAR DEPARTMENT,         
Washington City, April 15, 1865 3.20 p.m.
Col. L. C. BAKER,
New York:

Come here immediately and see if you can find the murderers of the President.

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. 783

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