Thursday, February 8, 2018

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Edwin M. Stanton, January 18, 1865 – 12:45 a.m.

CITY POINT, January 18, 1865 — 12.45 a.m.
Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:

Your dispatch of 10 o'clock last evening has just reached me. Owing to the time that has elapsed I am not confident but that you have left. If I cannot come myself, leaving here by sun-up, I will send General Rawlins, and will run to Washington to see you in a day or two.

U.S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I Volume 46, Part 2 (Serial No. 96), p. 163

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