 | Indiana Historical Society - Indiana - 1911 - 584 pages
...of the 8th, Lee had answered General Grant's note, saying in part : "To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army." But at the close of that day he found General Sheridan's cavalry was across the line of his retreat. He... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1912 - 468 pages
...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 surrender of...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | American essays - 1912 - 900 pages
...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 surrender of...army, but, as the restoration of peace should be the object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot therefore meet... | |
 | Morris Schaff - Appomattox Campaign, 1865 - 1912 - 338 pages
...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 surrender of...army, but, as the restoration of peace should be the object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot therefore meet... | |
 | Franklin Spencer Edmonds - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 394 pages
...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 surrender of...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | Education - 1915 - 640 pages
...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 surrender of...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | Charles W. Smith - Generals - 1915 - 26 pages
...of the 8th, Lee had answered General Grant's note, saying in part : "To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army." But at the close of that day he found General Sheridan's cavalry was across the line of his retreat. He... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson - Law - 1916 - 534 pages
...the surrender of his army and did not think the emergency called for such a result. He added : . . . But as 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... | |
 | Arthur Caswell Parker - Generals - 1919 - 420 pages
...frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army. ... I can not therefore meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia. . . . " The day before he had asked the terms of surrender, but this was when he was pursued by Crooks... | |
 | Charles Edward Burrell - Prince Edward County (Va.) - 1922 - 438 pages
...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 surrender of...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... | |
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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... 
