Civil War Broadside Announces Surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army: "Lee's Whole Army Has Surrendered", Very Rare"LEE'S WHOLE ARMY HAS SURRENDERED."
  This broadside from the Western Reserve Chronicle of Warren, Ohio, consists of a telegram from General Philip H. Sheridan to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, with news of engagements with Lee's retreating army, closing with the famous line, "If the thing is pressed, I think Lee will surrender."
  [CIVIL WAR.] Printed Broadside, Western Reserve Chronicle, May 14, 1865, Warren, Ohio. 1 p., 6.125" x 9". Some ink spots from printing.
  Excerpt "I have the honor to report that the enemy made a stand at the junction of the Burkesville Station Road, upon which he was retreating. I attacked them with two Divisions of the 6th Corps and routed them handsomely, making a connection with the Cavalry. I am still pressing on with both Cavalry and Infantry.... If the thing is pressed, I think Lee will surrender."
 

"LATER. "LEE'S WHOLE ARMY HAS SURRENDERED.                                                                         "P. H. SHERIDAN."
  Historical Background When General Ulysses S. Grant's forces cut the last supply lines to Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, on April 1 and 2, 1865, the Confederates abandoned both cities. The Confederate government fled west by train, while Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia marched west. Lee hoped to reach Lynchburg, 100 miles to the west, or Danville, 125 miles to the southwest, where he could resupply his army, then march to North Carolina to unite with Joseph E. Johnston's army.
  Union forces pursued Lee relentlessly.  Major General Philip H. Sheridan commanded Grant's cavalry with the V Corps in support and blocked Lee's opportunity to retreat south toward Danville along the railroad. Sheridan's cavalry traveled parallel and to the south of Lee's forces to try to intercept the Confederates.
  On April 6, Sheridan reported in this dispatch, "If the thing is pressed I think that Lee will surrender." At 11:15 that night, General Grant at Burkesville Station, forwarded Sheridan's report to President Abraham Lincoln, waiting anxiously at Grant's Headquarters at City Point, Virginia, fifty miles to the east. The next morning at 8:35 a.m., Lincoln forwarded the news to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in Washington, by which it reached anxious newspapers and the public throughout the North. A few hours later, at 11:00 a.m. on April 7, President Lincoln telegraphed General Grant, "Gen. Sheridan says ‘If the thing is pressed I think that Lee will surrender.' Let the thing be pressed."
  And press it, they did. The Army of the Potomac cut off Lee's escape route to Lynchburg and destroyed more of his meager supplies. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Grant at Appomattox Court House at 3 p.m. on April 9.
 
 
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