APRIL 7, 1865.
Lieut. Gen. U.S. GRANT,
Commanding Armies of the United States:
GENERAL: I have received your note of this date. Though not
entertaining the opinion you express of the hopelessness of further resistance
on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia, I reciprocate your desire to
avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your
proposition, ask the terms you will offer on condition of its surrender.
R. E. LEE,
General.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
46, Part 3 (Serial No. 97), p. 619
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