WAR DEPARTMENT,
March 3, 1865.
Lieutenant-General GRANT:
The President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to
have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of
General Lee's army or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me
to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political
question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit
them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to
the utmost your military advantages.
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
47, Part 3 (Serial No. 100), p. 263
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