 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
 | Paul Christopher Anderson - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 116 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert E. Lee - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 434 pages
...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... | |
 | Alice Fahs, Joan Waugh - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...factors in requir1ng Confederate surrender "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."2 In letters to Jubal Early and other former lieutenants shordy after the war. Lee stressed... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - History - 2004 - 736 pages
...to yield to overwhelm1ng numbers and resources. 1 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 from no d1strust of them ; but. feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Ethan Sepp Rafuse - History - 2004 - 176 pages
...closing of a brief but illustrious history, "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."26 It took almost forty years and cost more than $2.8 million, but the Official Records... | |
 | Louis Decimus Rubin - History - 2005 - 161 pages
...masculine pronoun to indicate the third-person hypothetical singular. To echo General Lee's Farewell Order, "I need not tell the survivors of so many hard fought...consented to this result from no distrust of them." As noted herein, the novelist Stendhal liked to dedicate his work to what he termed "The Happy Few,"... | |
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