 GENERAL: Your note of last evening, in reply to mine of same date, asking the condition on which I will accept the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, is just received. In reply I would say that, peace being my great desire, there is but one condition...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3941912Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...received. In reply I would say, that peace being my great desire, there is but one condition that I insist upon, namely : That the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the government of the United States until pioperly exchanged. I will... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...is but one condition that I insist upon, viz. : "That the men surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged. " I will meet you, or designate officers to meet any officers you may name for the same purpose, at... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...just received. In reply, I would say that, peace being my great desire, there is but one condition 1 "A 1864 for taking up arms again against the Government of the United States nntil properly exchanged. I will... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...accept the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, U just received. In reply, I would gay, that peace being my great desire, there is but one condition...Government of the United States until properly exchanged. I will meet you, or will designate officers to meet any officers you may name for the same purpose,... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...bat one conditioo that I insist upon, vi/. : • That the men surrendered shall be disqualifie'] for , supplies for this purpose "I will meet you, or designate officers to meet any officers you may name for ib» game purpose, at... | |
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...the Army of Northern Virginia will be received. That the men surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, US GBANT, Lieutenant-Gen. Commanding Armies of the United... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...on which he would insist, namely, that the men and officers surrendered should be disqualified for taking up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged; he ended by proposing a conference. Lee answered the same day, declining to surrender, but expressing... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1866 - 728 pages
...accept the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, is just received. In reply, I would say, that peace being my great desire, there is but one condition...Government of the United States until properly exchanged. I will meet you, or will designate officers to meet any officers you may name for the same purpose,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...accept the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, is just received. In reply, I would say that, peace being my great desire, there is but one condition...men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged. I will... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1866 - 794 pages
...accept tho surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, is just received. In reply, I would say that peace being my great desire, there is but one condition...men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged. I will... | |
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