APRIL 23RD, 1865: In response to a telegram from Secretary Welles urging the utmost vigilance to prevent the escape of Jefferson Davis and his cabinet across the Mississippi River, Rear Admiral S.P. Lee, commanding the Mississippi Squadron, directed: "The immediate engrossing and important duty is to capture Jeff. Davis and his Cabinet and plunder.
"To accomplish this, all available means and every effort must be made to the exclusion of all interfering calls."
Not quite sure what "plunder" and "interfering calls" was about?
--Old B-R'er
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