WAR DEPARTMENT, April 3, 1865-10.54 a.m.

General DIX,

New York:

It appears from a dispatch of General Weitzel, just received by this department, that our forces under his command are in Richmond, having taken it at 8.15 this morning.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, D. C., April 3, 1865.

Major-General DIX,

New York:

A salute of 100 guns, in honor of the capture of Richmond, Va., will be fired at meridian the day after receipt of this order at each military post and arsenal in the United States. Department commanders will give orders accordingly. Report receipt and execution of this order.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Copies to Major-General Hooker, Cincinnati; Major-General Curtis, Milwaukee; Major-General Pope, Saint Louis, Mo.; Major-General Palmer, Louisville, Ky.; Major-General Hancock, Winchester, Va.; Major-General Caldwater, Philadelphia; Brigadier-General Morris, Baltimore; Major-General Dana, Memphis, Tenn.; Major-General Canby, New Orleans; commanding officer, Elmira, N. Y.; commanding officer Johnson's Island, Sandusky, Ohio; Major-General Hovey, Indianopolis, Ind.; Brigadier-General Barnes, Point Lookout, Md.; commanding officer Springfield Armory, Mass.; commanding officers Augusta Arsenal, Me.; Watervliet Arsenal, N. Y.; Watertown Arsenal, Mass.; Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburg, Pa.; Fort Monroe Arsenal, Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Va.; Franford Arsenal, Bridesburg, Pa.; Washington Arsenal, D. C.; Saint Louis Arsenal, Mo.; Leavenworth Arsenal, Kans.; Detroit Arsenal, Dearbornville, Mich.; Major-General McDowell, San Francisco, Cal.; commanding officer Fort Columbus, N. Y.; Brigadier-General Wessels, Hart's Island, N. Y.; commanding officer Carlisle Barracks, Pa.; Brigadier-General Carleton, Santa Fe, N. Mex., by mail from Saint Louis or some station west.)

BOSTON, MASS., April 3, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

I give you joy on those trimphant victories. Our people by a common impulse abandon business to-day for thanksgiving and rejoicing. The colored men received late, got in first, and this is Scripture fulfilled.

J. A. ANDREW,

Governor.