Ulysses S. Grant to Winfield Scott Hancock, Washington D.C., April 19, 1865

    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
    Transcription date
    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.
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