CITY POINT, Va., March 30,
1865 — 7.30 p.m.
Hon. SCRETARY OF WAR:
I begin to feel that I ought to be at home, and yet I
dislike to leave without seeing nearer to the end of General Grant's present
movement. He has now been out since yesterday morning, and although he has not
been diverted from his programme, no considerable effect has yet been produced,
so far as we know here. Last night at 10.15, when it was dark as a rainy night
without a moon could be, a furious cannonade, soon joined in by a heavy
musketry-fire, opened near Petersburg and lasted about two hours. The sound was
very distinct here, as also were the flashes of the guns up the clouds. It
seemed to me a great battle, but the older hands here scarcely noticed it, and,
sure enough, this morning it was found that very little had been done.
A. LINCOLN.
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. 280
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