 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...  The Life and Campaigns of General Lee - Page 316by Edward Lee Childe - 1875 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1912 - 912 pages
...1865. 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,...this 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... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...9• interview with General Grant and accepted his conditions, and at half-past " I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia,...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
..." GENERAL — I received at a late honr your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday, I did not intend recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons....hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free / do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but, as th» restoration... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...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 surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia,...this army, but as the 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,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...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 surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia,...this army, but as the 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,... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...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,...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 cannot,... | |
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...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 surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia,...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... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...1865. " 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,...this army, but a,s the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot,... | |
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