WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, May
13, 1865. (Sent 5.20 p.m.)
Hon. EDWARDS PIERREPONT,
New York:
I have proof of express personal malice against me by
Greeley, and believe that I can establish a combination between him and others
which may end in accomplishing my death, as it did against Mr. Lincoln and Mr.
Seward. This is my reason for distinguishing his case from others of general
vituperation.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
(Same to Hon. F. B. Cutting.)
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. 1149
