 | J. Tracy Power - History - 2002 - 496 pages
...yesterday."133 Grant, who spent the night of 7 April at Farmville, sent a short note to Lee that began, "The result of the last week must convince you of...resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia," then asked the Confederate commander to surrender. Lee replied that he did not think his predicament... | |
 | George Walsh - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 502 pages
...it read, "must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance. ... I feel that it is so, & regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood. ..." Then he asked for Lee's surrender. The general-in-chief passed the note on to Longstreet, who... | |
 | Susan Provost Beller - United States - 2003 - 132 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... | |
 | Edward G. Longacre - Appomattox Campaign, 1865 - 2003 - 316 pages
...communication with his adversary, sending through the lines a letter calling on Lee to acknowledge that "the result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance." 23 The Confederate commander returned a polite refusal of Grant's request, which was received the following... | |
 | Michael Gerhardt - Fiction - 2003 - 412 pages
...7Apl, 1865 Genl; I have reed your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army ofN. Va. -1 reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, & therefore before considering... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 736 pages
...Lee's chance of escape was utterly hopeless," sent the following letter to General Lee: GEN. RE LEE: General : The result of the last week must convince...hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the a1my of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift... | |
 | History - 2004 - 552 pages
...1865. 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... | |
 | Frederick Trevor Hill - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 224 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... | |
 | Wendy Conklin - Education - 2005 - 194 pages
...disposition. Name Grant's Memoirs— Divided Reading (cont.) Part? Letter to General Lee dated April 7, 1865 The result of the last week must convince you of the...of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. l feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further... | |
 | Jeffry D. Wert - History - 2005 - 598 pages
...a mortal wound, dying two days later and becoming the last Federal general to die in the war.59 407 result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness...of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle," wrote Grant. "I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
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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... 
