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 so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of... Grant and His Campaigns: A Military Biography - Page 485by Henry Coppée - 1866 - 521 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...thoroughly familiar with the harrowing details of war.' "— Army of ik» Potomac," p. 613. lessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern...terms you will offer, on condition of its surrender." To this Grant immediately replied : — " GENERAL : Your note of last evening, in reply to mine of... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...Farmville, the following: " ' 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
..."Apnll. " GENERAL RE LEE, Commander 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 so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...following letter : " APRIL 7, 1865. " GENERAL — The result of the last week must convince you of ion o0 , in this struggle. I feel that it is so; and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...7th. 1865. Gen. 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...coached in the following terms : — " 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 so ; and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...7th, 1865. Gen. 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 so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...following letter : " APRIL 7, 1865. " ( I xs Km L, : — 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 so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| 1865 - 278 pages
...7, 1865. GKNERAL RE LEE, Commander GSA: 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 ia so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
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