 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
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 786 pages
...midnight, while unable to sleep from pain, he received the following communication from Lee. " April 8th : I received at a late hour your note of today. In mine...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... | |
 | Charles Folsom Walcott - Massachusetts - 1882 - 570 pages
...escape, during the night sent the following letter to his magnanimous antagonist : — April 8, 1865. 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 the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but as the... | |
 | William Swinton - History - 1882 - 790 pages
...wrote, but flying as he wrote : APRIL 8, 18(5. ( : i :N ri; \ i. :— I received at a late hoar yonr note of today. In mine of yesterday I did not intend...Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, / do not think the emergency hat ariten to call for the turrender of thu army ; but, as the... | |
 | Andrew Atkinson Humphreys - United States - 1883 - 552 pages
...4. April 8, 1865. GENERAL — I received at a lafe hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday 1 did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army...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... | |
 | Andrew Atkinson Humphreys - United States - 1883 - 496 pages
...Northern Virginia will be received. US GRANT, Lieutenant - General. GENERAL EE LEE. No. 4. GENERAL—I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday 1 did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of... | |
 | William P. Seville - Delaware - 1884 - 178 pages
...column, and about midnight received the following communication from General Lee : " 'April 8, 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... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - United States - 1884 - 690 pages
...struggled to find some mode of escape. His reply was couched in the following diplomatic language : " 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... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...had sent, the evening before, the following reply to General Grant's last note : " April 8, 1865. " 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... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 586 pages
..."Lieutenant-General." "APRIL, 8, 1865. "GENERAL — I received, at a late hour, your note of to day. In mine, of yesterday, I did not intend to propose...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... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 668 pages
...column, and about midnight received the following communication from General Lee : "April 8, 1865. "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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