 | 1866 - 724 pages
...midnight received the following communication from General Lee : "Aran, 8, 1865. "GENERAL : I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did not intend to propose tbe surrender of the army of northern Virginia, but to iisk the tenu!- •: your proposition. To bo... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1866 - 602 pages
...officers shall be disqualified for taking up arms against the United States until properly exchanged." " I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army," Lee answered; but at the same time asked for an interview at ten o'clock next morning. Sheridan had... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Generals - 1866 - 752 pages
...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 mine of yesterday,...this army ; but, as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I. cannot,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 894 pages
...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...the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But, as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...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...the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 864 pages
...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...the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But, as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals... | |
 | William Parker Snow - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 598 pages
...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...frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to calt for the surrender. But, as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...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 mine of yesterday,...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 the restoration... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...frank" seemed to move him to a disingenuousness foreign to his nature : — "GENERAL: — I received, at a late hour, your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday...this army ; but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I can not,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...APRIL 8, 1865. GENERAL — I. received, at a late hour, your note of to-day. In mine of yesteroay, I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army...this army ; but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot,... | |
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General: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. 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. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to... 
