 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...following correspondence ensued between them. Grant writes from Farmville : APRIL 7, 1885. GENERAL — The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness...myself the responsibility of any further effusion of'blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the... | |
 | James Sanks Brisbin - Campaign literature, 1868 - 1868 - 424 pages
...GENERAL : I have just received your note of this 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 your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood; and, therefore, before considering your... | |
 | Henry Champion Deming - Electronic books - 1868 - 562 pages
...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 therefore, before considering your... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...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 therefore, before considering your... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...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 therefore, before considering your... | |
 | Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 pages
...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 therefore, before considering your... | |
 | Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1869 - 458 pages
...Grant reached the rebel lines bearing the following letter: April 1th, 1865. GENERAL : — The results of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness...I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to lift from myself the responsibility of the further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender... | |
 | Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1869 - 478 pages
...the following letter: April 1th, 1865. GENERAL : — The results of the last week must convince yon of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part...I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to lift from myself the responsibility of the further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Fiction - 1869 - 536 pages
...had opened the correspondence. " The result of the last week must convince General Lee," he wrote, " of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia." He therefore "asked the surrender" of that army to prevent bloodshed. Lee had written in reply, requesting... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 876 pages
...GKKKBAL: — I have received your note of 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 your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your... | |
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April 7, 1865 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... 
