 | L. T. Remlap - Voyages and travels - 1885 - 374 pages
...anxious to save further effusion of blood, addressed the following dispatch to Lee: "APRIL 7, 186.5. * GENERAL : — The result of the last week must convince...Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and I regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by... | |
 | 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
...of bluntly confessing his inability to further cope with him, he wrote : — " Farmville, April 7th, 1865. " GENERAL : The result of the last week must...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
...of bluntly confessing his inability to further cope with him, he wrote : — " Farmvillt, April 7th, 1865. " GENERAL : The result of the last week must...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... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 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... | |
 | Loomis T. Palmer - Generals - 1885 - 790 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 i reciprocate jour desire to avoid useless eftuslon of blood, and therefore. before considering your... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Biography - 1885 - 442 pages
...as the Army of Northern Virginia." Lee replied, "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... | |
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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... 
