| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...next morning the following letter : " APRIL 7, 1865. " GENERAL — The result of the last week mast convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Array of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so; and regard it as my duty to shift... | |
| James Sanks Brisbin - Campaign literature, 1868 - 1868 - 424 pages
...GENERAL : I have just 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... | |
| Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 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... | |
| Henry Champion Deming - Electronic books - 1868 - 562 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... | |
| Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 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... | |
| James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 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... | |
| John Esten Cooke - Fiction - 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... | |
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