 | American essays - 1912 - 912 pages
...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,...army, but, as the restoration of peace should be the object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot therefore meet... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...conditions, and at half-past " 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,...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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, / be that offen th» restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...answer to 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,...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I can not, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...answer to 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,...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals would tend to that end. I can not, therefore, meet you with a... | |
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...answer to 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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...mice of yesterday. " I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virgin«, bot to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has nrisen to call for the surrender. But as the restoration of peace should be the tote object of all,... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...mine of yesterday. " I did not intend to propore the surrender of the Army of Kortliern Virgin», tat to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emeryoncv hi« arisen to call for the surrender. But as tie restoration of ptai* should be the sv-.г... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1866 - 920 pages
...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,...this army, but as the restoration of peace should bo the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1866 - 164 pages
...of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of yourproposition. Tobefrank, I donotthink the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender...restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposal would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view... | |
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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... 
