 | 1865 - 278 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1865 - 838 pages
...Virginia," To this Lee replied, that while he was not entirely of Grant's opinion of tho " hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia," he reciprocated the desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and asked the terms which would bo offered... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 828 pages
...Yir¿nuia." To this Lee replied, that while he was not entirely of Grant's opinion of the ''hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, " he reciprocated the desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and asked the terms which would be... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1866 - 712 pages
...following note: — "General, — The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern...as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1866 - 750 pages
...following note: — "General, — The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern...as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1866 - 164 pages
...LEE, Commanding C. 8. A. : GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern...as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of ,he Confederate... | |
 | J. T. Headley - United States - 1866 - 640 pages
...followed. "April?, 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...as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of .you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...7, 1865. " GENERAL — The result of the last week must convince yon of the hopelessness of farther resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia...as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1866 - 722 pages
...Farrnvillo : "APRIL 7, 1.SG5. " GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince yon of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel tluit it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself tho responsibility ot' any further etl'u.siou... | |
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The results 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. 
