 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 880 pages
...Gen. RE Lee, Comma" g Confederate Statei Ânria; GENERAL: — Your note of yesterday is recei'td. As I have no authority to treat on the subject of peace, the meeting proposed for 10 A. ». tu-diy, could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 592 pages
...April 9, 1865. General RE Lee, Commanding CS Army. General : — Your note of yesterday is received. As I have no authority to treat on the subject of peace, the meeting proposed for 10 AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - Appomattox Campaign, 1865 - 1904 - 584 pages
...9, 1865. General RE Lee, Commanding C. 8. Army. General: — Your note of yesterday is received. As I have no authority to treat on the subject of peace, the meeting proposed for 10 AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - Great events by famous historians - 1905 - 474 pages
..."ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, April 9, 1865. " GENERAL RE LEE, Commanding Confederate Stales Armies: " Your note of yesterday is received. I have no authority...on the subject of peace; the meeting proposed for 10 AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - United States - 1906 - 368 pages
...who delivered to General Lee a communication from General Grant reading as follows: April 9, 1865. GENERAL: Your note of yesterday is received. I have...on the subject of peace; the meeting proposed for 10 AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, general, that I am equally anxious for peace... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 456 pages
...foregoing reached General Grant late at night, and early the next morning he replied : " April g, 1865. "GENERAL: "Your note of yesterday is received. I have...on the subject of peace; the meeting proposed for 10 AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1906 - 536 pages
...April 9. " General RE Lee,Commanding C. 8. A.: " GENERAL, — Your note of yesterday is received. As 1 have no authority to treat on the subject of peace, the meeting proposed for 10 AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, general, that I am equally anxious for peace... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 674 pages
...Sheridan. Before starting, however, he replied to Lee from Curdsville, as follows : — "APRIL 9, 1865. " GENERAL : Your note of yesterday is received. I have...on the subject of peace. The meeting proposed for 10 AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace... | |
 | United States - 1908 - 626 pages
...Richmond, between the picket-lines of the two armies. EE LEE, General. April 9th, 1865. GENERAL RE LEE. General : Your note of yesterday is received. I have...on the subject of peace ; the meeting proposed for 10 am to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 202 pages
...ARMIES OF THE US April 9, 1865•. GENERAL RE LEE, Commanding CSA Your note of yesterday is received. As I have no authority to treat on the subject of peace, the meeting proposed for 10 AM to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace... | |
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I have no authority to treat on the subject of peace ; the meeting proposed for 10 A. M. to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself, and the whole North entertains the same feeling.... 
