| Ian Frederick Finseth - History - 2006 - 648 pages
...event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Sincerely hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without...the loss of another life, I subscribe myself, etc., US Grant, Lieutenant-General. I proceeded at an early hour in the morning, still suffering with the... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...event, save thousands of human lives; and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Sincerely hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe myself, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, US GRANT, Lieutenant-General. GEN. LEH TO GEN. GRANT. April... | |
| Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 545 pages
...save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed. Seriously hopmg that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe myself, etc. "US GRANT, Lieutenant-General. "GENERAL RE LEE," On the morning of the 9th, General Ord's command and... | |
| Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...an invitation for him to meet Grant and discuss terms of surrender, this in line with Grant's hope "that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life." On Palm Sunday morning, April 9, 1865, across the path of Lee's army and blocking its wav stood the... | |
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