 | Sylvanus Cadwallader - History - 1996 - 402 pages
...asked for instructions, Secretary Stanton had gone to the verge of giving him a "snubbing" 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 Lee's Army, or on solely minor and purely military matters.... | |
 | J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 460 pages
...Congress finished its work, Lincoln wrote out, word for word, a telegram for Stanton to send back to Grant. "The President directs me to say to you that...to have no conference with General Lee unless ,it be for the capitulation of Gen. Lee's army, or on some minor, and purely military matter," Stanton... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...views" in a telegram sent by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to Grant the day before the inauguration: "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 Gen. Lee's army, or on some minor, and purely, military matter. . . . Meantime... | |
 | Al Kaltman - Business & Economics - 2000 - 356 pages
...Secretary of War Stanton. After conferring with Lincoln, Stanton sent Grant the following instructions: 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 General Lee's army.... He instructs me to say that you are not to decide,... | |
 | Carol K. Bleser, Lesley J. Gordon - History - 2001 - 327 pages
...Washington and received an unequivocal reply from Stanton that was actually penned by Lincoln himself. "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 Lees army, or on solely minor and purely military matters... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 785 pages
...carefully worded reply, which was signed by Stanton and forwarded to Grant. The President directs me to say that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee unless it be for the capitulation of Gen. Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs... | |
 | Eliot A. Cohen - Civil supremacy over the military - 2002 - 312 pages
...Lincoln's hand, with only the date, salutation, and signature being in Stanton's — read as follows: 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 Gen. Lee's army, or on some minor, and purely, military matter. He instructs... | |
 | Howard Wayne Morgan - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 510 pages
...be called to the telephone in late July, 1899, to hear Lemuel Quigg, one of Platt's associates, say: "The President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to take the position of Secretary of War." Dumbfounded, Root could only reply: "Thank the President for... | |
 | Robert P. Broadwater - History - 2004 - 292 pages
...telegraph in reply: Office United States Military Telegraph, Headquarters Armies of the United States. Lieutenant-General GRANT: The President directs me to say to you that he wished you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Lee's army... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - Travel - 2005 - 433 pages
...of War, was written without blot or erasure by President Lincoln himself. I have seen the telegram : "WASHINGTON, March 3, 1865, 12 PM "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL...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... | |
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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... 
