 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1882 - 790 pages
...minutes past ten in the morning. " I see no prospect," he telegraphed, "of doing more than holding our position here till night. I am not certain that I can do that. If I can, I shall withdraw to-night north of the Appomattox, and if possible it will be better to withdraw... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...Rebellion had come. At 10. 4O AM* Lee reported further: " I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position here till night. I am not certain that I can do that. If I can, I shall withdraw tonight, North of the Appomattox, and if possible, it will be better to... | |
 | Armistead Lindsay Long, Marcus Joseph Wright - Generals - 1886 - 760 pages
...nit PETERSBURG, April 2, 1865. GENERAL JC BRECKENRIDGE : I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position here till night. I am not certain that I can do that ; if I can, I shall withdraw to-night north of the Appomattox, and if possible it will be better to... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 764 pages
...Gen. JC Breckinridge, the Confederate secretary of war : I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position here till night. I am not certain that I can do that. If I can I shall withdraw to-night north of the Appomattox, and, if possible, it will be better to... | |
 | James Madison Aubery - United States - 1900 - 446 pages
...April 2nd, 18G5 (via Petersburg, received 10:40 o'clock). I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position here till night. I am not certain that I can do that. If I can I shall withdraw to-night north of the Appomattox, and. if possible, it will be better to... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1904 - 696 pages
...despatch which reached Richmond at 10.40 in the morning: "I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position here till night. I am not certain that I can do that. If I can I shall withdraw to-night north of the Appomattox, and, if possible, it will be better to... | |
 | John William Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 1906 - 502 pages
...HEADQUARTERS, VIA PETERSBURG, April 2, 1865. GEN. JC BRECKINRIDGE. I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position here till night. I am not certain that I can do that; if I can, I shall withdraw tonight north of the Appomattox, and if possible it will be better to withdraw... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - History - 1909 - 452 pages
...attending service,2 and handed him Lee's telegram saying: "I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position here till night. I am not certain that I can do that. If I can I shall withdraw to-night north of the Appomattox, and, if possible, it will be better to... | |
 | James C. Clark - History - 1997 - 196 pages
...many messages to Richmond, a telegram to Breckinridge: I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position here till night. I am not certain that I can do that. If I can I shall withdraw tonight North of the Appomattox, and if possible it will be better to withdraw... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1907 - 688 pages
...the Secretary of War (received at 10.40 AM) : 2 — " I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position here till night. I am not certain that I can do that. If I can I shall withdraw to-night north of the Appomattox, and, if possible, it will be better to... | |
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