 | John Esten Cooke - 1869 - 536 pages
...had opened the correspondence. " The result of the last week must convince General Lee," he wrote, " of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia." He therefore "asked the surrender" of that army to prevent bloodshed. Lee had written in reply, requesting... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 876 pages
...GKKKBAL: — 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... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entirely of the opinion yon 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... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...Lieutenant-General. 85 GENEBAL GBANT TO GENEBAL LBB. April 7, ISffli General RE LEE, Commander CSA : — GENERAL : — The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessuess of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 992 pages
..." GENERAL : I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining 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... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 708 pages
...pain of making the proposition. He had dispatched to him the following letter : "April 7th, 1865. " GENERAL, — The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of farther resistance on the part of the Grant asks the sur- . „ , _. , T7_. ... , . , T r» i render... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...Correspondence between General Grant and General Lee. APRIL 7, 1865. Gon. RE LEE, Commanding CSA : July. Whereas pf any further effusion of blood, by asking of yoi1 the surren 1er of that portion of the Confederate... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1871 - 692 pages
...1865. GENERAL : I have received your note of this day. 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... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1871 - 940 pages
...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... | |
 | Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 744 pages
...surrender of Lee and his entire army. "April 7th. "GEN. RE LEE, Commander Confederate States Armies: "General — The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on tbe part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is BO, and regard it as... | |
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April 7, 1865 GENERAL : — I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia... 
