 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 250 pages
...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 call for the...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... | |
 | Historical Society of Delaware - Delaware - 1879 - 654 pages
...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 call for the...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposal would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - New York (State) - 1879 - 656 pages
...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 call for the...this army ; but as the restoration of peace should bethe sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot,... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 260 pages
...letter, General Lee's prospects had improved, when he indicted the following epistle: APRIL 8, 1865. of all, I desired to 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... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1880 - 670 pages
...surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. Tobefrank, I donot think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender...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... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1880 - 1064 pages
...surrender of this army, but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that...to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia, but as far as your proposal may affect the CS forces under my command, and tend to the restoration of peace,... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 786 pages
...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 call for the...to surrender the army of Northern Virginia; but, as far as your proposal may affect the Confederate States forces under my command, I should be pleased... | |
 | Evan Rowland Jones - United States - 1881 - 272 pages
...would be unavailing. On the 8th, while replying to Grant's second note, he said : " To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army." Next day, however, the great Virginian found himself surrounded on Clover Hill, near Appomattox Court... | |
 | Charles Folsom Walcott - Massachusetts - 1882 - 562 pages
...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 call for the...to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia ; but as far as your proposal may affect the Confederate States forces under iny command, and tend to the restoration... | |
 | William Swinton - History - 1882 - 790 pages
...proposition. To be frank, / do not think the emergency hat ariten to call for the turrender of thu army ; but, as the restoration of peace should be...to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia, but as far as your proposal may effect the Confederate States forces under my command, and tend to the restoration... | |
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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... 
