 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...7th, at Farmville : — " GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern...States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia." Lee, though continuing his retreat, wrote a reply the same night, which reached Grant early the next... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...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
...received your note of this date. Though not entirely of the opinion you express of tho 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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...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...you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate army known as the Army of Northern Virginia. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, US GRANT, Lieutenant-General,... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...GENERAL : — The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness at further resistance1 on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this...as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility oí any further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of liv* CS army known... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...convince you of tlie hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginin in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard...my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of my further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of lis C. Si army known... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...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 of any further effusion of blood,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...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 straggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 828 pages
...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... | |
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I feel that it is so; and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia. 
