 After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained...  Southern Historical Society Papers - Page 3741889Full view - About this book
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...by Lee) the following day. "After four years of arduous service," it began, "marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia...overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have... | |
 | David W. BLIGHT - History - 2009 - 525 pages
...Lee's "Farewell Address" to his troops was: "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." The address, General Orders No. 9, was actually written by Charles Mitchell, a member of Lee's staff.... | |
 | Franklin Aretas Haskell - History - 2002 - 128 pages
...Northern Virginia, April 10, 1865. " A A FTER four years of arduous service, marked by unsurL\ passed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern •*....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... | |
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 pages
...to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last,...result from no distrust of them: but, feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended... | |
 | Susan Provost Beller - History - 2003 - 132 pages
.../y^___— -— ^ affectionate farewell. " AFTER FOUR YEARS of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia...overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard-fought battles, General Lee, pictured here on His favorite Horse, was... | |
 | George Walsh - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 502 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard M. McMurry - History - 2002 - 172 pages
...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... | |
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