 | Henry Hollingsworth Humphreys - United States - 1924 - 378 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 Marshall - Generals - 1927 - 372 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 will lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view... | |
 | Fannie Eoline Selph - Confederate States of America - 1928 - 418 pages
...army. In his early answer to General Grant's proposition, he said in part: "I do not think that 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... | |
 | 1890 - 982 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...this army; but as the restoration of peace should be I he sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. 1 cannot therefore... | |
 | William S Mcfeely - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 612 pages
...the Confederate general, "I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of the army; but as the restoration of peace should be the...know whether your proposals would lead to that end." He proposed that they meet at ten the next morning "on the old stage-road to Richmond." Grant did not... | |
 | James C. Clark - History - 1997 - 196 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...you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Viriginia; but as far as your proposal may affect the CS forces under my command, & tend to the restoration... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - History - 1998 - 702 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 view... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - History - 1994 - 358 pages
...Arrny 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 this army, but as the resteration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would... | |
 | Sylvanus Cadwallader - History - 1996 - 402 pages
...of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore meet you with a view... | |
 | Charles Marshall - History - 2000 - 386 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 will 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... 
