Friday, January 26, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, April 22, 1865 – 2:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON, April 22, 1865 2.30 p.m.
Major-General HALLECK:

Your telegram of this morning indicates that Sherman's agreement with Johnston was not known to you. His action is disapproved, and he is ordered to resume hostilities immediately. But his order to Stoneman will allow Davis to escape with his plunder. I will write you the details.

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. 277

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