 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...PRESIDENT LINCOLN DICTATED THE FOLLOWING TO SECRETARY STANTON, TO BE SENT TO GENERAL GRANT. March 3, 1865. The president directs me to say to you that he wishes...General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 554 pages
...of an experienced ruler, perfectly sure of himself and of his duty : 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 military matter. He instructs me to... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - United States - 1891 - 646 pages
...and telegraphed to General Grant: WASOUfGTON, Man'-. S, 1865—12 r. M. Lieutenant- General GBANT: The President directs me to say to you that he wishes...to have no conference with General Lee, unless it bo for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs... | |
 | Paul Edmond Beckwith - 1891 - 402 pages
...dispatch, handing it to Mr. Stauton, who signed, sealed and forwarded it, which ran as follows : " 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 minor or purely military... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1892 - 630 pages
...terms upon which Lee surrendered : — WASHINGTON, March 3, 1865, 12 PM " Lieutenant- General GBANT : " The President directs me to say to you that he wishes...capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...so, in reply to Grant's request for instructions, he sent him the following explicit message, viz. : "The President directs me to say to you that he wishes...be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or in some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 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 military matters. He instructs me to... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 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 me to... | |
 | 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...the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some other minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss,... | |
 | 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...the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some other minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss,... | |
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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,... 
