 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a...view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia, but, so far as your proposition may affect the Confederate States forces under my command, and lead to the... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To bo frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army , hut, as the restor'ation of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 876 pages
...of your'proposition. To e frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...Northern Virginia, but to ask the 1 aub- terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think that the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender...know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I can not, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia ; but, as far as... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - United States - 1870 - 318 pages
...as late as the evening of the 8th, the day before the surrender, Lee replied : " To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army." A Federal writer sees in that reply " a kind of grim humor ; " and in truth there was something grim,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
...surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of y our proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposal would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1871 - 684 pages
...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a...view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia ; but so far as your proposition may affect the Confederate States forces under my command and tend to the... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of у our proposition, lobe frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but аз the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposal... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1871 - 936 pages
...of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But, as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1871 - 690 pages
...proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. •s o y But as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a... | |
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GENERAL: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to... 
