 | Charles William Eliot - America - 1910 - 572 pages
...to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them: but, feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate...loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared... | |
 | America - 1910 - 508 pages
...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them: but, feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - American literature - 1910 - 517 pages
...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them; but, feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - America - 1910 - 508 pages
...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them: but, feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - Biography & Autobiography - 1911 - 790 pages
...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no...loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have determined to avoid 1 An incident of the surrender, told by Grant to Dr. Fordyce... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - History - 1911 - 782 pages
...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no...loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have determined to avoid 1 An incident of the surrender, told by Grant to Dr. Fordyce... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - American literature - 1911 - 364 pages
...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no...loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared... | |
 | Ella Adelaide Knapp, John Calvin French - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1911 - 454 pages
...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no...that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that would compensate for the loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have determined... | |
 | Morris Schaff - History - 1912 - 336 pages
...resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no...loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared... | |
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After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the... 
