 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 592 pages
...was written without blot or erasure by President Lincoln himself: "WASHINGTON, March 3, 1865, 12 p.*. "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT: " The President directs...to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some other minor and purely military matter. He... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Anthologies - 1893 - 516 pages
...Lincoln himself. I have seen the telegram : " WASHINGTON, March 3, 1865, 12 p. M. " LIKUTENANT-GENKRAL GRANT : " The President directs me to say to you that...to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some other minor or purely military matter. He... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 582 pages
...Secretary of War, was written without blot or erasure by President Lincoln himself: "WASHINGTON, If arch 3, 1865, 12 PM "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT: "The President directs me to say to you that lie wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...bills, and wrote this reply, purporting to be from Mr. Stanton : " The President directs me to say that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor or purely political matters. He instructs... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...bills, and wrote this reply, purporting to be from Mr. Stanton : " Tlic President directs me to say that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor or purely political matters. He instructs... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 pages
...convention. Immediately, exchanging no word with any one, he wrote : — " The President directs me to say 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 or purely military matter. He instructs... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 574 pages
...STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, I HKAIHJUAKTKRB, AUMIKS OF THE UNITED STATES, j LIEUTENANT GENEUAL GHAXT: 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 Lee's army on solely minor and purely military matters. He instructs me... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 572 pages
...I HEADQUARTERS, AIIMIES OF TUB UNITED STATUS. [ LIEUTENANT GENERAL GRANT: The President directs mo to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee unless it bo for the capitulation of Lee's army ou solely minor and purely military matters. Ho instructs me... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Presidents - 1894 - 696 pages
...final victory, the secretary of war gave him, by the president's order, this imperative instruction: "The president directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with Gen. Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Gen. Lee's army, or on some other minor and purely military... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 422 pages
...LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, March 3, 1865. I2 PM Lieutenant-General Grant: The President directs me to say that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee unless it be for capitulation of General's Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs... | |
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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... 
