| Edward Lee Childe - Generals - 1875 - 366 pages
...1865. " General RE LEE, Commanding CSA "GENERAL, " The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| John William Jones - 1875 - 596 pages
...- General RE LXE, Commander CSA " SIB : The result of the last week must convince you of the utter hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| David Hume - 1876 - 944 pages
...army of Northern Virginia." Lee answered : — " Though not entirely of the opinion you express of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part...before considering your proposition, ask the terms yon will offer on condition of its surrender." After the exchange of certain other notes, Grant wrote... | |
| Benson John Lossing - North America - 1877 - 764 pages
...Grant had written a note to Lee, suggesting that the events of the past week should convince him of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia. " I feel that it is so," Grant wrote, " and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...dated at Fannville, that morning, in which he said: "The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part •of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so ; and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1878 - 722 pages
...Grant had written a note to Lee, suggesting that the events of the past week should convince him of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia. " I feel that it is so," Grant wrote, " and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Theodore Burr Gates - New York (State) - 1879 - 656 pages
...the cordon of bayonets that was closing around him. His reply was as follows : ' ' General : — I have 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... | |
| Historical Society of Delaware - Delaware - 1879 - 654 pages
...from Farmville : " 'April 7, 1863. " ' GENERAL, — The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1879 - 680 pages
...army known as the Army of Northern Virginia." He said : " The result of last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle." Lee replied the same day, saying that though he was not entirely of Grant's opinion... | |
| James Baird McClure - 1879 - 250 pages
...communication from Farmville:" APRIL 7, 1865. GENERAL: — The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance, on the part of the Army of Northern. I Virginia, in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the... | |
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