 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
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 644 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... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 686 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... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 936 pages
...house to rest and recuperate. Here a reply reached him from Lee at midnight of the 8th. It read : " 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 the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1885 - 410 pages
...conference with General Grant." On the day previous, Lee wrote to Grant as follows :— " GENERAL,—I received, at a late hour, your note of to-day 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... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 pages
...from General Lee : — 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...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. But as the restoration... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1885 - 472 pages
...While staying at this farmhouse, he received about midnight another letter from Lee: — April 8. — I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In...did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army cf Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Generals - 1885 - 752 pages
...corps closing upon his rear, the one, Humphreys' Second, to strike him before noon on the morrow (9th). yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender...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 M. Thayer - 1886 - 528 pages
...to hold a conference with General Grant." On the day previous, Lee wrote to Grant as follows : — " 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... | |
 | Willis C. Humphrey - United States - 1886 - 720 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 to-day....yesterday I did not intend to propose the surrender ot the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask tho terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think... | |
 | Charles Morris - United States - 1887 - 560 pages
...received. " TJ. S. GRANT, "Lieutenant- General." General Lee immediately responded : " 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... | |
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