TELEGRAM TO SECRETARY STANTON April 4, 1865 by Abraham Lincoln
TELEGRAM TO SECRETARY STANTON.
CITY POINT, VA., April 4, 1865 (Received 8.45 A.M.)
HON. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War:
General Weitzel telegraphs from Richmond that of railroad stock he found there twenty-eight locomotives, forty-four passenger and baggage cars, and one hundred and six freight cars. At 3.30 this evening General Grant, from Sutherland’s Station, ten miles from Petersburg toward Burkevllle, telegraphs as follows:
“General Sheridan picked up twelve hundred prisoners to-day, and from three hundred to five hundred more have been gathered by other troops. The majority of the arms that were left in the hands of the remnant of Lee’s army are now scattered between Richmond and where his troops are. The country is also full of stragglers; the line of retreat marked with artillery, ammunition, burned or charred wagons, caissons, ambulances, etc.”
A. LINCOLN.
