 | Edward Porter Alexander - History - 1998 - 702 pages
...generous act to send it.30 April 7, 1865 General. The events 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, & regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 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 Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
 | Sylvanus Cadwallader - History - 1996 - 402 pages
...Northern Virginia. After consulting Longstreet, who said : "Not yet," Lee wrote to Grant: "I have reed 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 N. Va.— I reciprocate your desire... | |
 | Mclean - History - 2000 - 372 pages
...letter went out that night under a flag of truce." Lee's reply reached Grant on the morning of April 8. "Though not entertaining the opinion you express on...further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Vitginia," Lee wrote, "I reciprocate your desite to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore,... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...might well address the Confederate commander: 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... | |
 | Charles Marshall - History - 2000 - 386 pages
...instructions, I wrote the following answer to General Grant's letter : — Apr it 7th, 1865 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... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 785 pages
...made no reply, but took up a single sheet of ruled note paper and began to write. yth Apl. '65 Genl 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 N. Va.— reciprocate your desire... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...correspondence with the embattled Confederate chief. 'The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Va. in this struggle," declared Grant. "I feel that it is so and regard it as my duty to shift from... | |
 | Susan Provost Beller - History - 2003 - 132 pages
...conflict. APRIL 7, 1865. General RE LEE: 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... | |
 | J. Tracy Power - History - 2002 - 496 pages
...at Farmville, sent a short note to Lee that began, "The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia," then asked the Confederate commander to surrender. Lee replied that he did not think his predicament... | |
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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 of... 
