2020-07 2 sessions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/23/2020
Printed Document Signed "E.B. Parsons, AAG, for Winfield Scott Hancock, Major General, 1pp. octavo, Head Quarters, Middle Military Division, Winchester, Virginia, April 10, 1865, and reads in part: "...The Major General Commanding announces to the Citizens in the vicinity of his lines, that General Robert E. Lee, surrendered with the Army of Northern Virginia yesterday to Lieut. General Grant near Appomattox C.H....Officers and men were all paroled not to take up arms against the United States...Those who do not so surrender will be brought in as prisoners of war. The Guerilla Chief Mosby is not included in the parole. The Major General Commanding trusts that the people to whom this is sent, will regard the surrender of General Lee with his Army, as Lee himself regards it, as the first great step to Peace, and will adapt their conduct to the new condition of affairs and make it practicable for him to exhibit towards them every leniency the situation will admit of...The marauding bands which have so long infested this section, subsisting on the plunder of the defenseless, effecting no great military purpose...Every outrage committed by them, will be followed by the severest infliction, and it is the purpose of the Major General Commanding, to destroy utterly the haunts of these bands if their depredations are continued..." Fine condition.
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