 | Henry Davenport Northrop - United States - 1899 - 1180 pages
...proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of lais army ; 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... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 536 pages
...restoration of peace should he the sole object of all. I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. " I cannot, therefore, meet you with...view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia, but so far as your proposition may affect the Confederate States forces under my command, and lead to the... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1248 pages
...proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this annv, but as the 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 Morris, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - United States - 1902 - 436 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...all, I desired to know whether your proposals would load to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 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 ail, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end I can not, therefore, meet you... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 880 pages
...proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But ал the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all. I dcsiie to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | James Barnes - 1904 - 298 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... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - Appomattox Campaign, 1865 - 1904 - 584 pages
...was the evening of the day that Lee had written to Grant the letter concluding with the phrase : " I cannot therefore meet you with a view to surrender the army of Northern Virginia." Of course, under the circumstances, there was no change in the orders to a single soldier of the Union... | |
 | Helen Dortch Longstreet - Gettysburg (Pa.), Battle of, 1863 - 1904 - 400 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 to peace 210 should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 592 pages
...was the evening of the day that Lee had written to Grant the letter concluding with the phrase : " I cannot therefore meet you with a view to surrender the army of Northern Virginia." Of course, under the circumstances, there was no change in the orders to a single soldier of the Union... | |
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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... 
