 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...the same evening in the following disingenuous and diplomatic terms : " GENERAL, — I received, at a late hour, your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday...proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but as the restoration of peace should be the solo... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...United Stet»•. April S, 1S65. 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... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 842 pages
...midnight received the following communication from General Lee : April 8, 1806. " GENERAL : I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday...terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think tho emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but as the restoration of peace should... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 640 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...surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to usk tho terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for... | |
 | Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 pages
...midnight received the following communication from General Lee: — April 8, 1865. GENERAL: I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday...surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, but to nsk the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know whether your proposal would lead to that end. 1 cannot,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 796 pages
...midnight received the following communication from General Lee : Aprfl 8, US. " GENERAL : I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday I did nut intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...received the following communication from General Lee : — " April 8.1866. " GENEBAL : — I received at a late hour your note of to-day. In mine of yesterday,...Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition. To bo frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army , hut, as... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Fiction - 1869 - 536 pages
...state the terms. Grant had stated them on this 8th of April, and Lee had replied at once that he " did not intend to propose the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of General Grant's proposition. To be frank," he had added, "I do not think the emergency has arisen to... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...a late hour your note of to-day in answer to mine of yesterday. ginia, bnt to ask the terms of roar proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender. But, as tho restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposals... | |
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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... 
