Sept. 15, Monday, 9.30
. . . Just sent you a telegram informing you that we yesterday gained a glorious and complete victory; every moment adds to its importance.
I am pushing everything after them with the greatest rapidity, and expect to gain great results.
I thank God most humbly for His great mercy.
How glad I am for my country that it is delivered from immediate peril!
I am about starting with the pursuit and must close this. . . . If I can believe one-tenth of what is reported, God has seldom given an army a greater victory than this. . . .
Telegram — Near
Sharpsburg, Sept. 16, 1862, 7 A. M.--Have reached thus far, and have no doubt delivered
Pennsylvania and
Maryland.
Army in excellent spirits.