 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1865 - 570 lehte
...day appointed I met General -Johnston for the first time in my life, although we had been exchanging shots constantly since May, 1863. Our interview was...surrender of Lee's army was the highest possible crime. He admitted that the terms conceded .to General Lee were magnanimous and all he could ask ; but he... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1865 - 574 lehte
...day appointed I met General Johnston for the first time in my life, although we had been exchanging shots constantly since May, 1863. Our interview was...surrender of Lee's army was the highest possible crime. He admitted that the terms conceded to General Lee were magnanimous and all he could ask; but he did... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - 1865 - 220 lehte
...Johnston for the first time in my life, although we had been exchanging shots constantly since May, 1803. Our interview was frank and soldier-like, and he gave...surrender of Lee's army was the highest possible crime. He admitted that the terms conceded to General Lee were magnanimous, and all he could ask ; but he... | |
 | 1865 - 576 lehte
...day appointed I met General Johnston for the first time in my life, although we had been exchanging shots constantly since May, 1863. Our interview was...life sacrificed after the surrender of Lee's army wns the highest possible crime. He admitted that the terms conceded to General Lee were magnanimous... | |
 | 1865 - 594 lehte
...interchanging shots constantly since May, 1863. Our interview was frank and soldier-like, and he gave mo to understand that further war on the part of the...surrender of Lee's army was " the highest possible crime." He admitted that the terms conceded to General Lee were magnanimous, and all he could ask, but he did... | |
 | George Ward Nichols - 1865 - 414 lehte
...since May, 1863. Our interview was frank and soldier-like, and he gave me to understand that farther war on the part of the Confederate troops was folly,...surrender of Lee's army was the " highest possible crime." He admitted that the terms conceded to General Leo were magnanimous, and all he could ask ; but he... | |
 | BREVET MAJOR GEORGE WARD NICHOLS - 1865 - 404 lehte
...since May, 1863. Our interview was frank and soldier-like, and he gave me to understand that farther war on the part of the Confederate troops was folly,...surrender of Lee's army was the "highest possible crime." He admitted that the terms conceded to General Lee were magnanimous, and all he could ask ; but he... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1865 - 588 lehte
...had been exchanging sbots*!onstantly since May, 1863. Onr interview was frank and soldierlike, and ho gave me to understand that further war on the part of the confederate troops was folly ; that ' the canse' was lost, and that every life sacrificed after the surrender of Lee's army was the highest possible... | |
 | 1865 - 598 lehte
...head off or catch Johnston's army, then retreating towards Charlotte. At noon of the day appointed, I met General Johnston for the first time in my life,...life sacrificed after the surrender of Lee's army was " ihe highest possible crime." He admitted that the terms conceded to General Lee were magnanimous,... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1866 - 436 lehte
...for the first time in my life, although we had been interchanging shots constantly since May,1863. Our interview was frank and soldier-like, and he gave...surrender of Lee's army was the highest possible crime. He admitted that the terms conceded to General Lee were magnanimous and all he could ask, hut he did... | |
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Our interview was frank and soldierlike, and he gave me to understand that further war on the part of the confederate troops was folly ; that ' the cause' was lost, and that every life sacrificed after the surrender of Lee's army was the highest possible... 
