| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...retreat, wrote a reply the same night, which reached Grant early the next morning : — "GENEBAL : I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining the opinion you express on the hope* Mr. Swinton, in speaking of this retreat and pursuit, says : " It would need other colors in... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...Farmville, the following: " ' GI.KRAL— I have received your note of this date. Though not entertaining tho opinion you express on the hopelessness of further...resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1 reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and, therefore, before considering your... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
..."Apnll. " GENERAL RE LEE, Commander CSA — " 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... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...following letter : " APRIL 7, 1865. " GENERAL — The result of the last week must convince you of ion o0 , in this struggle. I feel that it is so; and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...7th, 1865. Gen. RE Lee, Commanding CSA : 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... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...7th. 1865. Gen. RE Lee, Commanding CSA : 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 BO, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...coached in the following terms : — " 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... | |
| Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...following letter : " APRIL 7, 1865. " ( I xs Km L, : — 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... | |
| 1865 - 278 pages
...7, 1865. GKNERAL RE LEE, Commander GSA: 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 ia so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1865 - 838 pages
...addressed the following letter to Lee : " GFNERAL,_Thc result of tho 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, mid regard it as my duty to shirt from myself tho responsibility... | |
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