 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...retreat, wrote a reply the same night, which reached Grant early the next morning : — "GENEBAL : I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hope* Mr. Swinton, in speaking of this retreat and pursuit, says : " It would need other colors in... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...Farmville, the following: " ' GI.KRAL— I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining tho opinion you express on the hopelessness of further...resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1 reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and, therefore, before considering your... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
..."Apnll. " GENERAL RE LEE, Commander CSA — " 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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...following letter : " APRIL 7, 1865. " GENERAL — The result of the last week must convince you of ion o0 , in this struggle. I feel that it is so; and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...following letter : " APRIL 7, 1865. " ( I xs Km L, : — 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... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 828 pages
...Army of Northern Yir¿nuia." To this Lee replied, that while he was not entirely of Grant's opinion of the ''hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, " he reciprocated the desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and asked the terms which would be... | |
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...7, 1865. GKNERAL RE LEE, Commander GSA: 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 ia so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...7th. 1865. Gen. RE Lee, Commanding CSA : 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 BO, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...coached in the following terms : — " 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... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1865 - 838 pages
...addressed the following letter to Lee : " GFNERAL,_Thc result of tho 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, mid regard it as my duty to shirt from myself tho responsibility... | |
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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 of... 
