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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 40 (search)
or to have the investigation, is received. It is impossible at this time to give the court and witnesses necessary for the investigation, but I see nothing in your application objectionable to have published. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. The following report, it will be perceived, contradicts no statement of my letter of May 11. It is copied from the Army and Navy Journal: Report of Major-General Sheridan. cavalry headquarters, May 16, 1865. General: I have the honor to submit the following narrative of the operations of my command during the recent campaign in front of Petersburg and Richmond, terminating with the surrender of the rebel army of Northern Virginia, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865: * * * * * During the night of the thirty-first of March, my headquarters were at Dinwiddie Court House, and the Lieutenant-General notified me that the Fifth corps would report to me, and should reach me