...No. 9. "After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude," he wrote, "the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled...overwhelming numbers and resources. ... I need not tell the brave survivors . . . that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them, but feeling that...

...Army of Northern Virginia, April 10,1865): "After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia...compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources." Since that long-ago spring, whole battalions of historians have kept themselves occupied adding details...

...Confederate, 557-58. See also Lee's Farewell Order to his troops at Appomatrox, which declared that "the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources." General Order No. 9, April 10, 1865, Wartime Papers, 934. 22. EA Pollard, The Lost Caute (New York:...

...years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude," General Orders No. 9 began, "the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources." Lee explained that he had surrendered because he saw no other alternative, expressed "an increasing...

...said goodbye to his army at Appomattox: "After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia...compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources." Since the publication of the first edition of this book, some of the documents have been transcribed....

...asserting, in a sentence that became legendary, "After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia...been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources."39 With such language, the goal of independence, and indeed the whole moral weight of the...

...Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9; he accounts to his soldiers for their defeat with the words 'the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources'. Grant's terms, which extend to apply to the surrenders of Johnston's southern army to Sherman on April...

...in Lee's statement to the Confederate army at Appomattox, that final surrender had come only after 'The Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources,' and that 'valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss.'30 With chivalry's...

...General Robert E. Lee gave a farewell address to the Army of Northern Virginia, whom he called "the brave survivors of so many hard fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last." The version above was printed in Baltimore in 1883. way, he bowed low, giving me a charming smile of...

...OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 1o, 1865. "After four years' of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result...