| Joshua Rhodes Balme - United States - 1866 - 314 pages
...FAREWELL ORDER, General Lee, on the 1 Oth inst., issued the following farewell order to his army : — • After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed...overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard-fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...the following plain and inanly address : Id- MciR-iui I.IH AIIMV KOBTHKR* VIRGINIA, April 10, 1866. After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Array of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1871 - 822 pages
...of his army in the following address : HEADQUABTEBS ARMY OF NOBTHEEN VIRGINIA, ) April 10, 1305. J After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Aim v of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1871 - 816 pages
...of his army in the following address : HEADQUARTERS AIÎMT or NORTHERN VIRGINIA, I April 10, 1865. f After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, tho Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I... | |
| Science - 1895 - 902 pages
...defensive until the great surrender at Appomattox. Lee's phrase in his farewell to his soldiers — " The Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources " — was no farfetched excuse for defeat. While this volume does not aim to provide data for a comparison... | |
| Edward Lee Childe - Generals - 1875 - 406 pages
...order of the day, his final adieu to them : " Head -Quarters, Army of Northern Virginia, April i0lh, 1865. "After four years of arduous service, marked...compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. v " I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1876 - 878 pages
...troops, commendatory of their devotion to the cause of 10 Conspirators in the following words: — " After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army * Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I ;ed not tell... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...HKAP-QUAETEBB ARVY NOETHEBN VIBOIHU, APPOMATTOX C. II., April 10, 1S65. '• UKNKKAL OKUEBS, No. 9. " After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed...yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need nut tell the brave survivors of so many hard fuught buttles, who have remained steadfast to the last,... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1881 - 926 pages
...troops, commendatory of their devotion to the cause of the Conspirators in the following words: — " After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed...overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the bravo survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have... | |
| Carlton McCarthy - United States - 1882 - 268 pages
...— HEADQUARTERS ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA, APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE, April 10, 1865. GENERAL ORDER No. 9. After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed...overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have... | |
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