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Sir: Yours of this date proposing armistice, and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works I am, Sir, very respectfully, Your obt. sert., U.S. GRANT Brig. Gen.
This circumstance I am persuaded needs only to be mentioned to your Excellency to obtain that redress which is in your power only to afford, and which humanity so strongly prompts. I have the honor to be, Sir Yr Excellency's most obt Hble srvt George Washington N. Y. June 8 1782 Sir: My feelings prompted me to grant Messrs.
Hoping that it may have the same effect upon your ghost-hunting readers, I offer it, Mr. I would observe, that wherever I have modified the French version of the Story, it has been in conformity to some recollection of the narrative of my friend, the Knight of Malta. Your obt. servt., "Keep my wits, heaven! They say spirits appear To melancholy minds, and the graves open!"
For this reason I have taken the liberty to trouble you with this and a few others of the same tendency. The public good which you, sir, have so eminently promoted, is my only motive. That you may enjoy the protection of Heaven and live long and happy is the ardent wish of, Sir, Yr. mo. obt. hbl. serv., P. HENRY, JR. His Excellency, GENL. WASHINGTON. On the following day Congress adjourned.
The General commends your activity and energy, and expects you to continue to show these qualities. I am, very respectfully, yr. obt. svt. CAPT. GEO. L. BAXTER, Commanding Beauregard Scouts. I would like to know if he tried it and came to grief or abandoned the project. As letters can now get through to New Orleans, I wrote there. July 14.
I broke my brains thinking, should I or should I not? Nor can I now unravel all the motives at work. But in two days' time I writ: Madam, I have a difficulty to come at the reason for your request, but am compelled by courtesy to appoint three o' the clock at the rooms of Mrs Dew, my old servant, at Kidder Street, No. 12. Your obt humble servant, Strange our names should be alike!
I wish to be usefull to you being with regard sir Your most obt. hl. servant ESTEVAN MIRO. The duplicity of the Spaniards is well illustrated by the fact that the Gardoqui MSS. give clear proof that they were assisting the Creeks with arms and ammunition at the very time Miro was writing these letters. See the Gardoqui MSS., passim, especially Miro's letter of June 28, 1786.
The printed part was cut from a copy of the preliminary Proclamation and pasted on merely to save writing. "I have some desire to retain the paper, but if it shall contribute to the relief of the soldiers, that would be better. "Your obt. servt., "A. LINCOLN."
A letter addressed to me at Springfield, Illinois, will reach me. I am very respectfully, Your obt. svt., U. S. GRANT. This letter failed to elicit an answer from the Adjutant-General of the Army. I presume it was hardly read by him, and certainly it could not have been submitted to higher authority.
A letter addressed to me at Springfield, Illinois, will reach me. I am very respectfully, Your obt. svt., U. S. GRANT. This letter failed to elicit an answer from the Adjutant-General of the Army. I presume it was hardly read by him, and certainly it could not have been submitted to higher authority.
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