Is the story true?

[David Lockmiller]

THE PAPERS AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
VOLUME SEVEN
CONSTITUTIONAL EDITION
Edited by Arthur Brooks Lapsley
 
TELEGRAM FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GENERAL GRANT.
WASHINGTON, March 3, 1865. 12 PM.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT:
The President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.