 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 876 pages
...Armiet of tin United States : GENERAL : — I received at a late hour vour note of today, in answer to mine of yesterday. I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Vir§inia, but to ask the terms of your'proposition. To e frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - American literature - 1869 - 546 pages
...Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of General Grant's proposition. To be frank," he had added, " I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender." But he would meet General Grant on the next morning to discuss the whole affair. There the correspondence... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...Northern Virginia, but to ask the 1 aub- terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think that the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender...this army; but, as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I can not,... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - United States - 1870 - 318 pages
...of his army ; but as late as the evening of the 8th, the day before the surrender, Lee replied : " To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army." A Federal writer sees in that reply " a kind of grim humor ; " and in truth there was something grim,... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 708 pages
...train. At midnight came Lee's answer to Grant's letter: "April 8th, 1865. " GENERAL, — I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surren^eneder,cbutewm treat der of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the jecfof peace?1 SUb"... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1871 - 684 pages
...United Stata. April 8, 1865. GENERAL : I received, at a late hour, your note of to-day, in answer to mine of yesterday. I did not intend to propose the...the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. • • But as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1871 - 936 pages
...United States. IV. Aprils. GENERAL : — I received, at a late hour, your note of to-day in answer to mine of yesterday. I did not intend to propose the...the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But, as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
...not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of y our proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency...this army ; but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposal would tend to that end. I cannot,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...United Statr*. APRIL 8, 1865. GENERAL: I received, at álate hour, your note of to-day, in answer to n liberal wages, to agriculture remunerative у our proposition, lobe frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of... | |
 | Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 744 pages
...Armies of the United States : "General — I received at a late hour your note of to-day, in answer to mine of yesterday. I did not intend to propose the...the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But as the restto ration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals... | |
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General: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to... 
