To Ulysses S. Grant1Jump to section
Lieut. Gen. Grant Washington,
City-Point, Va. March 23, 1865
We start to you at One P.M. to-day. May lie over during the dark hours of the night. Very small party of us. A. LINCOLN
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[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 381. ``Cipher'' is in the handwriting of the telegrapher. See Lincoln's telegrams to Grant, March 20, and to Robert T. Lincoln, March 21, supra. Lincoln was accompanied by Mrs. Lincoln and her maid, his son ``Tad,'' the bodyguard William H. Crook, and Captain Charles B. Penrose who had been detailed by Stanton to accompany the president. The party were on the River Queen, accompanied by the Bat, the latter