“… let them go! We don’t want to be bothered with them.… Frighten them out of the country. Open the gates, let down the bars. Scare them off.”
—ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON JEFFERSON DAVIS AND HIS CABINET, APRIL 14, 1865.
“… Follow them to the ends of the earth if necessary.”
—BRIGADIER GENERAL GEORGE STONEMAN, U. S. CAVALRY, TO TROOPS IN PURSUIT OF DAVIS PARTY, APRIL 27, 1865.