 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all. I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. " I cannot, therefore, meet you with... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but...know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia ; but as... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army, but...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I can not, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army, but...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I can not, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I can not, therefore, meet yon with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia ; but as far as your proposi774 LIFE OF AHKAIIA.M LINCOLN. tion may affect the Confederate States forces under my command,... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...the tote object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. " I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia, but so far as your proposition may effect the Confederate States forces tinder к' command, and lead to... | |
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meat you with a... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...the sv-.г object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would li-nd to that end. "I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern V •-- ginia, but so far a.« your proposition may Bfioct the Confederate States forces under вт... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 pages
...Yirginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, / do not tliink the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but,...you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Yirginia; but, as far as your proposal may affect the Confederate States forces under my command, and... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1866 - 728 pages
...Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but...know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia ; but as... | |
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GENERAL : — I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen... 
