Letters / Correspondence

Robert E. Lee & Ulysses S. Grant

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1 Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant General: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date proposing that hereafter, except in time of action, either party be at liberty to remove the dead and wounded from... Jun. 5, 1864
2 Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee It is reported to me that there are wounded men, probably of both armies, now lying exposed and suffering between the lines occupied respectively by the two armies. Humanity would dictate that some... Jun. 5, 1864
3 Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant General: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date and regret to find that I did not make myself understood in my communication of yesterday. I intended to say that I... Jun. 6, 1864
4 Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant General: I regret that your letter of this date asking a suspension of hostilities to enable you to remove your wounded from between the two armies was received at so late an hour as to make it... Jun. 6, 1864
5 Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee Your communication of yesterday’s date is received. I will send immediately, as you propose, to collect the dead and wounded between the lines of the two armies, and will also instruct that you be... Jun. 6, 1864
6 Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee The knowledge that wounded men are now suffering from want of attention, between the two armies, compels me to ask a suspension of hostilities for sufficient time to collect them in, say two hours.... Jun. 6, 1864
7 Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant General: Your note of 10:30 a. m. to-day has just been received. I regret that my letter to you of 7 p. m. yesterday should have been too late in reaching you to effect the removal of the wounded.I... Jun. 7, 1864
8 Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee Note in Letter Book, Headquarters Armies of the United States.This last letter of General Lee was not delivered at the outposts of General Hancock until after 10 o’clock, the hour fixed by General... Jun. 7, 1864
9 Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee Referred to General G. G. Meade, commanding Army of the Potomac.I will notify General Lee that hostilities will cease from 6 to 8 for the purposes mentioned. You may send the officers and men... Jun. 7, 1864
10 Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant I have received your letter of the 16th isnt: and have submitted your proposition to release citizens held as prisoners by either party to the Secretary of War.I shall be glad if some arrangement... Feb. 18, 1865
11 Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th inst., I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of N. Va. on the following terms, to wit;Rolls of all the officers and men to... Apr. 9, 1865