| 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... | |
| United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1895 - 1560 pages
...specially committed to them. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. [Incloeure.) WAR DEPARTMENT, March 5, 1865 — 12 pm Lieutenant-General GRANT: The President...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... | |
| United States. War Dept - Confederate States of America - 1895 - 986 pages
...against the enemy. Yours, truly, EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. WAR DEPARTMENT, March 3, 1865. Lieutenant-General GRANT: The President directs me...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... | |
| United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1895 - 984 pages
...against the enemy. Yours, truly, EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. WAR DEPARTMENT, March 3, 1865. Lieutenant-General GRANT : The President directs me...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... | |
| Gilbert John Clark - Law - 1895 - 434 pages
...a pen.' And Mr. Lincoln at once wrote as follows to General Grant for the Secretary of War to sign: '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, or some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to... | |
| Ward Hill Lamon - 1895 - 348 pages
...Stanton, and requesting him to date, sign, and send it at once. The dispatch ran as follows : — " The President directs me to say to you that he wishes...to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...whole tone changing, 'Let me have a pen.' "Mr. Linclon sat down at the table, and wrote as follows: " 'The President directs me to say to you that he wishes...to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - Presidents - 1897 - 712 pages
...Assistant Adjutant-General. [From McPherson's History of Reconstruction. рч122.] WASHINGTON, March j, 1865 — 12 pm Lieutenant-General GRANT: The President...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... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - Presidents - 1897 - 712 pages
...Adjutant- General. [From McPhersoii's History of Reconstruction, p. 122.] WASHINGTON, Mardi j, ¿865 — 12 pm Lieutenant-General GRANT: The President directs...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... | |
| United States. President - 1897 - 714 pages
...McPherson's History of Reconstruction, p. IM.] WASHINGTON, March j, 186^ — 12 pm Lientenant.General GRANT: The President directs me to say to you that...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... | |
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