Record Data
Source citation
Reprinted in George Baylor, Bull Run to Bull Run: Four Years In the Army of Northern Virginia... (Richmond, VA: B.F. Johnson Publishers, 1900), 340.
Type
Military record
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
John Osborne, Dickinson College
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Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Washington, April 19, 1865.
Major-General Hancock, Winchester:
If Mosby does not avail himself of the present truce, end it and hunt him and his men down. Guerrillas, after beating the armies of the enemy, will not be entitled to quarter.
U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General.