 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 668 pages
...follows : HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE US, 5 PM, Apiil 7, 1865. GENERAL RE LEE, Commanding CS A The results of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness...Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so. and retrarri it as effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 752 pages
...bluntly confessing his inability to further cope with him, he wrote : — " Farmville, April 7th, 1865. " GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince...of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. 1 feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 644 pages
...following letter from Farmville to Lee : — " GENERAL : — The result of the last week must convince yon of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part...this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it us my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking of you... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 936 pages
...bluntly confessing his inability to further cope with him, he wrote : — " Farmvillt, April 7th, 1865. " GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince...hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Nunhern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1885 - 472 pages
...General Lee. It was dated Farmville, April 7, 1865, and read as follows : — General : — The results of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of Iho Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Generals - 1885 - 752 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... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 686 pages
...GENERAL : — I have received your note of this day. 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... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - Presidents - 1885 - 800 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 eftusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1210 pages
...received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessneas 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... | |
 | James C. Clark - History - 1997 - 196 pages
...where the current business may be transacted here."61 On Friday, Grant sent a message to Lee saying, "The result of the last week must convince you of...further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia."62 Lee received Grant's message but continued his drive toward Appomattox Court House. He... | |
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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... 
