A. Lincoln.

Telegram to Secretary Stanton. 
(Cipher.)
Headquarters army of the Potomac,
March 25, 1865. (Received 5 P.M.)

Hon.  Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: 

I am here within five miles of the scene of this morning’s action.  I have nothing to add to what General Meade reports except that I have seen the prisoners myself and they look like there might be the number he states—­1600.

A. LINCOLN

TELEGRAM TO SECRETARY STANTON.  CITY POINT, VA., March 26, 1865. (Received 11.30 A.M.)

Hon.  Secretary of war: 

I approve your Fort Sumter programme.  Grant don’t seem to know Yeatman very well, but thinks very well of him so far as he knows.  Thinks it probable that Y. is here now, for the place.  I told you this yesterday as well as that you should do as you think best about Mr. Whiting’s resignation, but I suppose you did not receive the dispatch.  I am on the boat and have no later war news than went to you last night.

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to Secretary Stanton. 
City point, Virginia, March 27, 1865.3.35 P.M.

Hon.  Secretary of war, Washington, D.C.: 

Yours inclosing Fort Sumter order received.  I think of but one suggestion.  I feel quite confident that Sumter fell on the 13th, and not on the 14th of April, as you have it.  It fell on Saturday, the 13th; the first call for troops on our part was got up on Sunday, the 14th, and given date and issued on Monday, the 15th.  Look up the old almanac and other data, and see if I am not right.

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to Secretary Stanton. 
City point, Virginia, March 28, 1865. 12 M.

Hon.  Secretary of war, Washington, D.C.: 
After your explanation, I think it is little or no difference whether
the Fort Sumter ceremony takes place on the 13th or 14th.

General Sherman tells me he is well acquainted with James Yeatman, and that he thinks him almost the best man in the country for anything he will undertake.

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to Secretary Stanton. 
City point, Va., March 30, 1865. 7.30 P.M. 
(Received 8.30 P.M.)

Hon.  Secretary of war: