Ulysses S. Grant 1822-1885 Eighteenth President of the United States and Union Lieutenant General. Important war-date A.L. S. 1p. 4to. on Head Quarters, Armies of the United States letterhead, City Point, Va , Mar. 16, 1865 to Union Major General Edward 0 C. Ord commanding the Department of Virginia. In full: Maj. Gen. Ord, You can send a dispatch to Ft. Monroe and Norfolk directing that when Sumner [Edwin Vose, Jr.?] reaches there he will come up the river without debarking his troops. I think he will not leave White House earlier than tomorrow noon. Last night [Major General Philip] Sheridan had not reached there. U. S. Grant Lt. Gen Sheridan would return within two days, having devastated the Virginia Central Railroad and the James River Canal, helping cut-off a beleaguered Robert E. Lee. Here Grant is gathering his forces for the final push on Richmond, which would have Lee on the run to Appomattox within two weeks. Fine condition, tipped at one extreme margin to a larger sheet.