To General U. S. Grant.
Executive Mansion, Washington, January 5, 1865.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT, City Point, Va.:
Richard T. Jacob, Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky, is at the Spotswood House, in Richmond, under an order of General Burbridge not to return to Kentucky. Please communicate leave to him to pa** our lines, and come to me here at Washington.
A. LINCOLN.