Order
Ulysses S. Grant to Winfield S. Hancock, March 22, 1865
City Point
City Point, March 22, 1865.
Maj. Gen. W. S. HANCOCK, Winchester, Va. :
Under Special Orders, No. 48, you will under no circumstances permit family supplies to go into Virginia beyond the lines you actually hold. It will no doubt work hardship in many meritorious cases, but we cannot control the use they will be put to when beyond our reach, nor can those whom we would help. Hence the necessity of the strictest enforcement of said order. The order does not apply to West Virginia.
By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:
JNO. A. RAWLINS,
Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.
Washington, D. C., March 22, 1865—10 a.m,
Major-General HANCOCK,
Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.
Washington, D. C., March 22, 1865—10 a.m,
Major-General HANCOCK,
Winchester :
No orders have been issued from the War Department to General
Grant, and not sent here.
No orders have been issued from the War Department to General
Grant, and not sent here.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Location: City Point. Summary: Lieutenant-General Grant instructs Major General Hancock to strictly enforce orders prohibiting family supplies beyond Union lines in Virginia to prevent misuse, exempting West Virginia.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 46, Part 1
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