 the opinion you express as to the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your proposition, ask the terms you will...  The Life and Campaigns of General Lee - Side 301av Edward Lee Childe - 1875 - 336 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - 1868 - 456 sider
...GENERAL,—I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender." This letter did not reach the Lieutenant-General till the morning of the 8th, just as he was setting... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1868 - 922 sider
...dated at Fannville, that morning, in which he said : " The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so; and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1870 - 866 sider
...Commanding Confederate States Armies : GENERAL :—The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so ; and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - 1868 - 664 sider
...following letter from Farmville to Lee :— " GENERAL :—The result of the last week must convince yon of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
 | William August Crafts - 1868 - 182 sider
...following communication : — APRIL 7, 1865. GENERAL, : The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1869 - 546 sider
...opened the correspondence. " The result of the last week must convince General Lee," he wrote, "of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia." He therefore " asked the surrender" of that army to prevent bloodshed. Lee had written in reply, requesting... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1870 - 770 sider
...GENERAL : " I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. RE LEE, General. During the night the Confederates resumed their retreat towards Lynchburg, and the... | |
 | John William Draper - 1870 - 708 sider
...ent ertainmg the opinion you express of the hopelessterms win be of- ness of farther resistance 011 the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. " RE LEE, General. " Lieutenant General US Grant." . To this Grant replied : ''April 8th, 1865. " GENERAL,... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1871 - 690 sider
...GENERAL : I have received your note of this day. Though not entirely of the opinion you express of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. RE LEE, General. To LIEUTENANT-GENERAL TJ. S. GRANT, Commanding Armies of the United States. April... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1871 - 684 sider
...1865. GENERAL: I have received your note of this day. Though not entirely of the opinion you express of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. To LrETTTENANT-GENERAL U. 8. GRANT, RE LEE, General. Commanding Armies of the United States. April... | |
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