 GENERAL: — I received, at a late hour, your note of today. 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.  General Lee - Page 390by Fitzhugh Lee - 1894 - 433 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...at evening before, the following response to Grant's later overture : "APRIL 8, 1866. " GBNERAI, — I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In...Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, / do not think the emergency ha* arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but, as... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Generals - 1866 - 752 pages
...Lieutenant-General. GENERAL EE LEE." To this General Lee responded as follows : " APRIL 8, 1865. " GKNKKAL : " I received, at a late hour, your note of to-day. In...Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but, as... | |
 | William Parker Snow - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 598 pages
...Lientenant-General, Commanding Armies of the United States. IV. GENBRAL LEE TO GENERAL GRANT. April & 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,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 894 pages
...obedient servant, US GRANT, Lieutenant- General, Commanding Armies of the United States*. IV. Aprils. 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,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 864 pages
...servant,. US GRANT, Lieutenant- General, Commanding Armies of the United States... 11 IV. April 8. 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,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...obedient servant, TJ. 8. GRANT, Lieutmant-Gmeral, Commanding Armies of the United Slates. April 8, 1S6S. 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,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 842 pages
...column, and about midnight received the following communication from General Lee : April 8, 1806. " GENERAL : I received at a late hour your note of to-day....Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think tho emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but as the... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...sorely pressed, he replied the same evening in the following disingenuous and diplomatic terms : " GENERAL, — I received, at a late hour, your note...Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but as the restoration... | |
 | James Sanks Brisbin - Campaign literature, 1868 - 1868 - 424 pages
...captured twenty-five guns and four trains of cars. The same day, Lee wrote to Grant: "APRIL 8th, 1865. " GENERAL : I received, at a late hour, your note of...Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army; but as the... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...Lee, whose anxiety "to be frank" seemed to move him to a disingenuousness foreign to his nature : — "GENERAL: — I received, at a late hour, your note...Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but as the... | |
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