 | Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 pages
...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, I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless eflusion of blood, and, therefore, before considering your... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1872 - 568 pages
...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, I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and, therefore, before considering your... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - 1872 - 404 pages
...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, I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your... | |
 | R. Guy M'Clellan - United States - 1875 - 716 pages
...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...as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility pf any further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the CS Army known... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1875 - 664 pages
...: GENERAL : The result of the last week mus convince you of the hopelessness of further re sistance 4 th« responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking of yov the surren ler of that portion... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - United States - 1875 - 416 pages
...pursuit of Lee, he addressed him the following note: 4k APRIL 7. " General RE Lee, Commanding SC A : " General : — The result of the last week must convince...hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Arrny of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift... | |
 | John William Jones - 1875 - 596 pages
..." GSNSRAL : 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... | |
 | Edward Lee Childe - Generals - 1875 - 406 pages
...GENERAL, " I have received your note of this day. Though not entirely of the opinion you express as to 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 Lee Childe - Generals - 1875 - 366 pages
...GENERAL, " I have received your note of this day. Though not entirely of the opinion you express as to 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... | |
 | David Hume - 1876 - 944 pages
...chief of the Northern armies, wrote to General Lee, the generalissimo of the South, as follows : — " The result of the last week must convince you of the...hopelessness of further resistance on the part of tho army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift... | |
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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... 
