 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 572 pages
...say that you are not to decide, or discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions tho President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages. KUWARD... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - Law - 1895 - 434 pages
...for the capitulation of Lee's army, or some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon...submit them to no military conference or convention. In the meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages.' " — 2 Nat'l Cyclo. of American... | |
 | United States. War Dept - Confederate States of America - 1895 - 986 pages
...capitulation of General Lee's army or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon...his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages. EDWIN... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1895 - 1560 pages
...capitulation of General Lee's army or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon...his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages. EDWIN... | |
 | Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1895 - 730 pages
...it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter"; and "not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political...his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions."82 He had previously disapproved the action of General Butler in ordering... | |
 | United States - 1895 - 592 pages
...purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss or confer upon anv political question. Such questions the president holds...submit them to no military conference or convention. In the meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages." The president, having read... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...the capitulation of Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon...his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. In the meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages.'... | |
 | Horace Porter - Generals - 1897 - 636 pages
...capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon...his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages." The... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - Presidents - 1897 - 712 pages
...capitulation of General Lee's army or on some minor and purely military'matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon...his own hands and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages. EDWIN... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 566 pages
...telegraphed to General Grant. Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon...his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages. The orders... | |
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He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost... 
