Nothing but surrender. Lee sent a note to General Grant asking to meet with him to discuss surrender terms.

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He said the surrender terms could be no better than those given General Lee.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

He offered him the same surrender terms that General Lee had accepted.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Does it need refinement in some way?" "And if it does need some adjustment in light of the events that have taken place over the last number of months, including the election and so on, and then what are the implications of that in terms of General McChrystal's resource request?" The secretary said the United States will not abandon its core mission in Afghanistan, which President Obama described as the destruction of the al-Qaida terrorist network, because it is "critical" to U.S.national security.

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