Saturday, February 10, 2018

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, December 30, 1864 – 9 p.m.

WASHINGTON CITY, December 30, 1864 — 9 p.m.
Lieutenant-General GRANT:

Your dispatch of 12 noon to-day just received, and I am rejoiced at its indications. No living man shall know anything upon the subject from me except the Secretary of the Navy. I would suggest an express from you to Porter to let him know at the earliest possible moment what to expect before he leaves.

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 42, Part 3 (Serial No. 89), p. 1099

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