 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...addressed the rebel commander in the following terms, under date of April 7th, at Farmville : — " GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince...Virginia in this struggle. 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... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...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
...GE.NEEAL : I have 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
..."GENEUAL — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on m the ro , I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...Farmville, having sent a note to the Confederate head-quarters coached in the following terms : — " General, — The result of the last week must convince...Virginia in this struggle. 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...General-in-Chief, there being " no relaxation in the pursuit :" April 7th, 1865. Gen. RE Lee, Commanding CSA : GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince...Virginia in this struggle. 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...General-in-Chief, there being " no relaxation in the pursuit :" April 7th. 1865. Gen. RE Lee, Commanding CSA : GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince...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
...General-in-Chief, there being " no relaxation in the pursuit :" April 7th. 1865. Gen. RE Lee, Commanding CSA : GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince...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... | |
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...1,1865. GENERAL : I have received your note of this date. Though not entirely of the opinion you express of the 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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States army known as the Army of Northern Virginia." To this Lee replied : " Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia... 
