WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City,
March 31, 1865 — 9.30 a.m.
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
I hope you will stay to see it out, or for a few days at
least. I have strong faith that your presence will have great influence in
inducing exertions that will bring Richmond; compared to that no other duty can
weigh a feather. There is, in fact, nothing to be done here but petty private
ends that you should not be annoyed with. A pause by the army now would do
harm; if you are on the ground there will be no pause. All well here.
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. 332
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