 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 766 pages
...proposition of General Grant : "By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed." General Sherman, a short time afterward, made the same terms with General Johnston for the disbandment... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Generals - 1885 - 752 pages
...liad are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Biography - 1885 - 442 pages
...be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed." At one o'clock, April 9, 1865, the two able generals met, and at four it was announced that the Army... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - United States - 1911 - 788 pages
...be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe... | |
 | American essays - 1912 - 900 pages
...had are well understood. By -the South laying down their arms, they would hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1912 - 468 pages
...be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe... | |
 | Morris Schaff - Appomattox Campaign, 1865 - 1912 - 338 pages
...had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they would hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe... | |
 | Education - 1915 - 640 pages
...be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds...without the loss of another life, I subscribe myself, etc., "US GRANT, Lieutenant-General." "April 9, 1865. "GENERAL : — I received your note of this morning... | |
 | Franklin Spencer Edmonds - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 396 pages
...be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe... | |
 | Franklin Spencer Edmonds - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 394 pages
...beyond his authority. In the concluding sentence of this letter, however, he expressed his sincere hope that "all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life." While this correspondence was going on, there were animated discussions in the Confederate camp on... | |
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AM today could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself, and the whole North entertains the same feeling. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their... 
