WAR DEPARTMENT,
April 3, 1865
— 10.30 a.m.
The PRESIDENT:
I congratulate you and the nation on the glorious news in
your telegram just received. Allow me respectfully to ask you to consider
whether you ought to expose the nation to the consequence of any disaster to
yourself in the pursuit of a treacherous and dangerous enemy like the rebel
army. If it was a question concerning yourself only I should not presume to say
a word. Commanding generals are in the line of their duty in running such
risks; but is the political head of a nation in the same condition?
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. 509
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