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" GENERAL: I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and... "
The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives ... - Page 346
edited by - 1868
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Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee

James D. McCabe - Generals - 1866 - 752 pages
...date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate...before considering your proposition, ask the terms ytu will offer on condition of its surrender. RE LEE, General. • Durmg the night the Confederates...
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The Campaign Lives of Ulysses S. Grant, and Schuyler Colfax

James Sanks Brisbin - Campaign literature, 1868 - 1868 - 424 pages
...date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate...you will offer on condition of its surrender. "RE LEE, General. "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL US GRANT." To this, Grant replied: "APRIL 8th, 1865. " GENERAL :...
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A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes ...

Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Constitutional history - 1870 - 872 pages
...this date. Though not entirely of the opinion you express of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate...you will offer, on condition of its surrender. RE LEE, General. The following correspondence then ensued : April 8. GEX. RE LEE, Commanding Confederate...
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The Life of Ulysses S. Grant: General United States Army

Henry Champion Deming - Electronic books - 1868 - 562 pages
...date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. RE LEE, General. APRIL 8, 1SC6. GENERAL, — Your note of last evening, in reply to mine of same date,...
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Grant as a Soldier and Statesman: Being a Succinct History of His Military ...

Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 pages
...date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. RE LEE, Oeneral. LIEUTENANT GENERAL US GRANT. To this I immediately replied, — April 8, 1865. GENERAL...
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Life and Services of Gen. U.S. Grant

Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. BE LEE, General. LIIUTENAXT-GENERAL US GBAST. To this, Grant immediately replied : APRIL 8, 1865. GENERAL...
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A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant: With a Portrait and Sketch of ...

Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 640 pages
...returned with Lee' s reply, written the day before : — . 478 CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GRANT AJTD LEE. the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender." After breakfast, Grant sent Williams back with a letter, and a message that he might be found near...
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The Life of Ulysses S. Grant: General of the Armies of the United States

James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 458 pages
...date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender." This letter did not reach the Lieutenant-General till the morning of the Sth, just as he was setting...
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...this day. Though not entirely of the opinion you express of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. UE LEE, General. Го Li K> T.-U Í.N . US Onurr, Commanding Annies of the United States. > April s,...
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Life and Public Services of General Ulysses S. Grant: From His Boyhood to ...

Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...leaving his headquarters, he received the following vague and diplomatic reply: — APRIL 7, 1865. I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion...terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. KE LEE, General. Lieut.-Gen. US GKAXT. Gen. Grant at once forwarded the following reply: — APRIL...
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