Friday, March 13, 2020

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock, April 19, 1865 — 5:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON, April 19, 1865 — 5.30 p.m.
 Major-General HANCOCK,  Winchester, Va.:

If Mosby does not avail himself of the present truce end it and hunt him and his men down. Guerrillas, after beating the armies of the enemy, will not be entitled to quarter.

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 3 (Serial No. 97), p. 839

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