Posted on 04/15/2025 7:16:35 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

























Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, April 21, 1865 (“Stanton briefly mentioned that General Grant had important communications from General Sherman, and requested that he would read them, which he did.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-april-21.html
Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Edwin M. Stanton, April 21, 1865 (“I have received and just completed reading the dispatches brought by special messenger from General Sherman.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_27.html
Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General William T. Sherman, April 21, 1865 (Gen. Grant warns Sherman that his agreement with Gen. Johnston is not well received in Washington)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to.html
Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, April 21, 1865 (“We are now busy paroling guerrillas and the like. All, from Mosby down, seem disposed to quit and surrender.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/brigadier-general-rutherford-b-hayes-to_34.html
Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Friday, April 21, 1865 (“The army feels very sad and sorrowful over the death of the president.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_29.html
Diary of John Wilkes Booth, Friday, April 21, 1865 (“For doing what Brutus was honored for—who made Tell a Hero. And yet I have stricken down a greater tyrant than they ever knew. I am looked upon as a common cut-throat.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/09/diary-of-john-wilkes-booth-friday-april.html
Today’s posts:
“Grant,” reply #57
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #58
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #59
Johnny Green, #60
John Jackman, #61
George Templeton Strong, #62
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #63
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