WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City,
April 27, 1865 — 9.20 a.m.
Maj. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, Nashville:
The following is an extract from a telegram received this
morning from General Halleck, at Richmond:
The bankers here have information
to-day that Jeff. Davis’ specie is moving south from Goldsborough in wagons as
fast as possible. I suggest that orders be telegraphed through General Thomas
that Wilson obey no orders from Sherman, and notifying him and Canby and all
commanders on the Mississippi to take measures to intercept the rebel chiefs
and their plunder. The specie taken with them is estimated here at from
$6,000,000 to $13,000,000.
You were some days ago notified that the President disapproved
Sherman's proceedings, and were directed to disregard them. If you have not
already done so you will issue immediate orders to all officers in your command
directing them to pay no attention to any orders but your own or from General
Grant, and spare no exertion to stop Davis and his plunder. Push the enemy as
hard as you can in every direction.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
(Same to General Canby, New Orleans.)
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I Volume
49, Part 2 (Serial No. 104), p. 483-4
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