WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City,
March 25, 1865 — 8 p.m.
To the PRESIDENT:
Your telegram and Parke's report* of the “scrimmage” this
morning are received. The rebel rooster looks a little the worse, as he could
not hold the fence. We have nothing new here. Now you are away everything is
quiet and the tormentors vanished. I hope you will remember General Harrison's
advice to his men at Tippecanoe, that they “can see as well a little farther
off.”
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
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* See
next, post.
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. 109
