SPRINGFIELD, April 10, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

A thousand thanks for your dispatch of last night. I start for Washington to-morrow.

R. J. OGLESBY,

Governor of Illinois.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 10, 1865.

Governor PEIRPOINT,

Alexandria, Va.:

Please come up and see me at once.

A. LINCOLN.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, Numbers 74.
In the Field, April 11, 1865.

I. The commanding officer of U. S. forces at Farmville, Va., will parole all prisoners of war at that place and permit them to go to their homes, not to take up arms against the United States until properly exchanged.

II. Paragraph I of Special Orders, Numbers 48, of date March 10, 1865,* from these headquarters, suspending "trade operations within the State of Virginia, except that portion known as the Eastern Shore, and the States of North Carolina and South Carolina, and that portion of the State of Georgia immediately bordering on the Atlantic, including the city of Savannah, until further orders," is hereby revoked.

By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:

T. S. BOWERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

BURKE'S STATION, April 11, 1865.

Major-General MEADE,

Farmville:

I think it will be advisable for you to direct supplies to be unloaded at Farmville to be issued to troops as they return. Take your own time in returning to Burke's Station. When you get here let the troops go into camp and await further orders.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, In the Field, Va., April 11, 1865.

Major General GEORGE G. MEADE,
Commanding Army of the Potomac:

GENERAL: You will please leave a garrison of at least one brigade at Farmville until all the troops and trains in the neighborhood of the

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*See Part II, p. 915.

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