Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865, 第 3 卷D. Appleton, 1881 |
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advance Appomattox arrived artillery assault Atlanta attack battle Boydton Boydton road brigade Burksville Butler campaign Canby Cape Fear river captured cavalry Chattanooga City Point column command court-house creek cross Danville delay destroy Dinwiddie directed dispatch division enemy enemy's entrenched Farmville Fifth corps fight fire Fisher Fisher's Hill Five Forks flank force Fort Fisher front general-in-chief Grant guns Halleck head-quarters Hood Hood's Humphreys hundred infantry James Jetersville Johnston Lee's Lynchburg Major-General mand Meade ment miles military morning move movement Murfreesboro Nashville night North Carolina officers once operations orders Petersburg position Potomac President prisoners push railroad reached rear rebel army rebel line received reinforcements replied reported Richmond river Savannah Schofield Secretary of War sent Sher Sheridan Sherman Sixth corps soldiers soon Stanton success supplies surrender telegraphed Tennessee Thomas thousand tion troops Valley Virginia wagons Warren White Oak road Wilmington wounded
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第 597 頁 - AM, 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. The terms upon which peace can be had are well understood. By the South laying down their arms, they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
第 705 頁 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
第 592 頁 - GENERAL: Your note of last evening, in reply to mine of same date, asking the condition on which I will accept the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, is just received. In reply I would say that, peace being my great desire, there is but one condition I would insist upon, namely: That the men and officers surrendered shall be disqualified for taking up arms again against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged.
第 596 頁 - 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 surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition.
第 112 頁 - ... nothing should be left to invite the enemy to return. Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command ; such as cannot be consumed, destroy. It is not desirable that the buildings should be destroyed — they should rather be protected; but the people should be informed that, so long as an army can subsist among them, recurrences of these raids must be expected, and we are determined to stop them at all hazards.
第 701 頁 - ... The President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter.
第 601 頁 - GENERAL : I received your note of this morning on the picket line, whither I had come to meet you, and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposition of yesterday. With reference to the surrender of this army, I now request an interview, in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.
第 701 頁 - Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions.
第 401 頁 - If some change is not made and the Commissary Department reorganized, I apprehend dire results. The physical strength of the men, if their courage survives, must fail under this treatment.
第 601 頁 - Church, and will push forward to the front for the purpose of meeting you. Notice sent to me on this road where you wish the interview to take place will meet me.