The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate ArmiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 |
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A. A. HUMPHREYS A. S. WEBB Battery Brevet Brigadier-General Brevet Major-General Brig Brigadier-General Brigadier-General and Chief camp Capt Captain Chief of Staff CITY POINT Cold Harbor Colonel companies Department deserters dispatch E. M. STANTON enemy enemy's February February 22 FIFTH ARMY Fort Fisher Fort Monroe Fredericksburg G. K. WARREN Hatcher's Run HDQRS HEADQUARTERS ARMY HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY honor to report infantry James January 16 January 24 Lieut Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General GRANT Major-General and Chief major-general commanding Major-General WEBB March MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION Monroe morning NINTH ARMY NINTH ARMY CORPS North Anna obedient servant P. H. SHERIDAN p. m. Major-General Pennsylvania Petersburg pickets POTOMAC rebel Received regiment respectfully Richmond River RUGGLES scouts SECOND ARMY CORPS Secretary Secretary of War sent SPECIAL ORDERS Spotsylvania Station telegraph Third Division to-morrow troops U. S. GRANT U. S. Volunteers Virginia Washington Winchester yesterday York
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Pagina 486 - Davis's letter to you of the 12th instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am now, and shall continue ready to receive any agent whom he, or any other influential person now resisting the national authority, may informally send to me, with the view of securing peace to the people of our one common country.
Pagina 899 - Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States...
Pagina 490 - It is our earnest wish to ascertain, after a free interchange of ideas and information, upon what principles and terms, if any, a just and honorable peace can be established without the further effusion of blood, and to contribute our utmost efforts to accomplish such a result.
Pagina 484 - That at the time I was informed that Mr. Blair sought the card as a means of getting to Richmond, Va., but he was given no authority to speak or act for the Government, nor was I informed of anything he would say or do on his own account or otherwise.
Pagina 486 - ... and to proceed to Washington to hold a conference with President Lincoln upon the subject of the existing war, and with a view of ascertaining upon what terms it may be terminated, in pursuance of the course indicated by him in his letter to Mr. Blair of January 18...
Pagina 329 - ... written instructions, and Mr. Stephens and party has ended, I will state confidentially, but not officially to become a matter of record, that I am convinced upon conversation with Messrs. Stephens and Hunter that their intentions are good and their desire sincere to restore peace and union. I have not felt myself at liberty to express even views of my own or to account for my reticency.
Pagina 491 - While, by the other party it was not said that, in any event or on any condition, they ever would consent to reunion ; and yet they equally omitted to declare that they would so consent.
Pagina 428 - We understood from him that no terms or proposals of any treaty or agreement looking to an ultimate settlement would be entertained or made by him with the authorities of the Confederate States, because that would be a recognition of their existence as a separate power, which under no circumstances would be done ; and, for like reasons, that no such terms would be entertained by him from...
Pagina 707 - be necessary to repel the armed enemies of the United States or to keep the peace at the polls.
Pagina 899 - ... go beyond the limits of the United States, with intent to avoid any draft into the military...