 | Horace Porter - Biography & Autobiography - 1897 - 642 pages
...with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are...to press to the utmost your military advantages." The general thought that the President was unduly anxious about the manner in which the affair would... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 712 pages
...with General Lee unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are...are to press to the utmost your military advantages. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. [From McPherson's History of Reconstruction, p. 13.] OO HOWARD,... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - Presidents - 1897 - 712 pages
...unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army or on some minor and purely military'matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide,...are to press to the utmost your military advantages. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. [From McPherson'9 History of Reconstruction, p. 13.] 0 О HOWARD... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Biography & Autobiography - 1899 - 564 pages
...for the capitulation of General STANTON'S NINE REASONS 187 Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are...are to press to the utmost your military advantages. The orders of General Sherman to General Stoneman to withdraw from Salisbury and join him will probably... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...conference with General Lee unless it be for capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are...not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political questions. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...conference with General Lee unless it be for capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are...not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political questions. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military... | |
 | Clarence Edward Noble Macartney - Generals - 1925 - 256 pages
...Lee "unless it be for the capitulation of Lee's army or on solely minor or purely military matters. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide,...submit them to no military conferences or conventions." If a copy of these orders of March 3rd had been sent to Sherman the whole difficulty might have been... | |
 | Sir Frederick Maurice - Civil supremacy over the military - 1926 - 188 pages
...with General Lee unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's Army or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are...and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions."1 When that famous meeting between Lee and Grant took place at Appomattox Court House,... | |
 | Sir Frederick Maurice - Military art and science - 1926 - 216 pages
...with General Lee unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are...questions the President holds in his own hands, and will entrust them to no military conferences or conventions." 1 When that famous meeting between Lee and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1926 - 544 pages
...He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political questions. Such questions the President holds in his own hands,...submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meanwhile you are to press to your utmost your military advantages. 4th. (Second Inaugural Address.)... | |
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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 or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost... 
