 | American essays - 1912 - 912 pages
...read and was in these terms. April 10, 1865. HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA. After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage...result from no distrust of them, but, feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 398 pages
...writing : GENERAL ORDER NO. 9. HEADQUARTERS ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 10, 1865. After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage...result from no distrust of them ; but feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended... | |
 | James Fitz James Caldwell - South Carolina - 1866 - 278 pages
...order : [GENERAL ORDER, No. 9.] HEAD-QUARTBRS ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9th, 1865. After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage...result from no distrust of them but, feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended... | |
 | William Parker Snow - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 576 pages
...army : GENERAL ORDERS— NO. 10. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 10. After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard, fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - United States - 1866 - 314 pages
...Lee, on the 1 Oth inst., issued the following farewell order to his army : — • After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage...overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard-fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Generals - 1866 - 752 pages
...following noble address : " HEADQUARTERS ARMY OP NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 10, 1865. " After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage...resources. "I need not tell the survivors of so many hard fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result... | |
 | William Parker Snow - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 598 pages
...army : GENERAL ORDERS— NO. 10. HEADQUARTERS A KM Y OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 10. After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard, fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Constitutional history - 1870 - 872 pages
...Ocneral. GENERAL ORDER NO. 9. Headquarters Army of Northern Va., ) April 10, 1865. } After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage...consented to this result from no distrust of them, but holding that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 876 pages
...fonr years of arduous service, marked by uuorpasaed courage and fortitude, the Army of VOL. v.— 5 A Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming...consented to this result from no distrust of them, but holding that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1871 - 690 pages
...address was in these words : HEADQUABTERS AEJCT NORTHERS ViBanrn, ) April 10, 1865. After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage...result from no distrust of them ; but, feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would, have attended... | |
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After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained... 
