 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1879 - 680 pages
...changing, " you are right. Let me have a pen." Mr. Lincoln sat down at the table and wrote as follows : " The President directs me to say to you that he wishes...to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...tone changing. ' Let me have a pen.' " Mr. Lincoln sat down at the table, and wrote as follows : " ' The President directs me to say to you that he wishes...to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
..." Mr. Lincoln sat down at the table, and wrote as follows : " ' The President directs me to say lo you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 196 pages
...tone changing. ' Let me have a pen.' " Mr. Lincoln sat down at the table, and wrote as follows : " ' The President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to haveno conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Lee's army, or on some minor... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1880 - 670 pages
...: WASHINGTON, March 3, 1866, 12 PM— Lieutenant General Grant: The President directs me to вау to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 786 pages
...War, and telegraphed to General Grant: " WisniKOTON, March 8, 1S6S, 12 r. «. " Lieutenant- General GRANT : "The President directs me to say to you that...to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Industries - 1883 - 756 pages
..." you are righ; Let ma have a pen." Mr. Lincoln sat ebwn t-.: the telle and •wrote as follows : " The President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have PO conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of Lee's army, o on some minor or... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - Democracy - 1885 - 550 pages
...of War, was written without blot or erasure by President Lincoln himself. I have seen the telegram : "WASHINGTON, March 3, 1865, 12 PM " LIEUTENANT-GENERAL...to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some other minor and purely military matter. He... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1886 - 628 pages
...telegraphed to General Grant : WASHINGTON, Jfareh S, 1865 — 12 r. V. Lieutenant- General GEANT : The President directs me to say to you that he wishes...to have no conference with General Lee, unless it bo for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Biography & Autobiography - 1886 - 384 pages
...in the shape of a dispatch from the Secretary of War, as follows : " The President directs me to say that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army or some minor or purely military matter. He instructs... | |
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Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences... 
