 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...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... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - American literature - 1869 - 546 pages
...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 call for the surrender." But he would meet General Grant on the next morning to discuss the whole affair. There the correspondence... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...propose the surrender of the Army of Northern 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 the restor'ation of peace should be the sole object of all, I desired to know... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 708 pages
...proposition. To be frank, I do not think that the emergency has 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 proposals would lead to that end. I can not, therefore, meet you with... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - United States - 1870 - 318 pages
...his army ; but as late as the evening of the 8th, the day before the surrender, Lee replied : " To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army." A Federal writer sees in that reply " a kind of grim humor ; " and in truth there was... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...lobe frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but аз e its powers by forced constructions of the constitutional charter which defines them ; proposal would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
...propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of y our proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army ; but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1871 - 690 pages
...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 call for the surrender. •s o y But as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether... | |
 | Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 698 pages
...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...desire to know -whether your proposals would tend to thc.t end. " I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia,... | |
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I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surrender of this army, but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all. I desire to know whether your proposals would lead to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view... 
