Life and Services of Gen. U.S. GrantRichardson, 1868 - 465 頁 |
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advance Appomattox army artillery assault attack bank batteries battle Beauregard Bragg Bridge brigade Brigadier-General Brown's Ferry Burnside Butler campaign captured cavalry centre Chattanooga City Point Colonel column command Confederate Corinth Courthouse Creek crossing destroy directed dispatch division Donelson enemy enemy's expedition field Fifth Corps fighting fire flank force Fort Donelson Fort Fisher Fort Henry forward front garrison grand gunboats guns Halleck Hancock headquarters honor hundred intrenchments Iuka Johnston land Lieutenant-General Lynchburg Major-General McClernand Meade Memphis ment miles military Missionary Ridge Mississippi morning moved movement night Ninth Corps o'clock officers Ohio Pemberton Petersburg Port Hudson position Potomac prisoners railroad re-enforcements reached ready rear rebel regiments retreat Richmond Ridge rifle-pits river road Rosecrans route Second Corps sent Sheridan Sherman Sixth Corps Smith soldier strong success surrender Tennessee thousand tion troops U. S. GRANT Vicksburg Warren West wounded
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第 445 頁 - I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States Army known as the Army of Northern Virginia.
第 448 頁 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of the officers nor their private horses or baggage.
第 446 頁 - 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 call for the surrender of this army...
第 197 頁 - MY DEAR GENERAL, —I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...
第 262 頁 - Mr. President, I accept the commission, with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought in so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving on me; and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies, and above all, to the favor of that Providence which leads both nations and men.
第 261 頁 - General Grant, the nation's appreciation of what you have done, and its reliance upon you for what remains to be done in the existing great struggle, are now presented, with this commission constituting you lieutenant-general in the Army of the United States. With this high honor, devolves upon you, also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to add, that, with what I here speak for the nation, goes my own hearty personal...
第 70 頁 - SIR: The distribution of the forces under my command, incident to an unexpected change of commanders, and the overwhelming force under your command, compel me, notwithstanding the brilliant success of the Confederate arms yesterday, to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms which you propose.
第 251 頁 - Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress be, and they hereby are, presented to Major-General Ulysses S.
第 445 頁 - ... 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 448 頁 - GENERAL : — I received your note of this morning on the picketline, 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.