They were able to pour enfilading fire from both ends of the cut, and many Confederates considered surrender.
He retreated with Lee in the Appomattox Campaign, commanding both the First and Third Corps, following the death of A.P. Hill on April 2. As Lee considered surrender, Longstreet advised him of his belief that Grant would treat them fairly, but as Lee rode toward Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, Longstreet said, "General, if he does not give us good terms, come back and let us fight it out".
He will be remembered as a brother, son, friend and dancer, but most of all as someone who never considered surrendering to AIDS, turning every painful step he took into a tenacious and graceful dance.
Still, Ackman says he was half-seriously considering surrender when the conference-room phone rang.
Some Japanese holdouts, especially on small Pacific Islands, refused to surrender at all (believing the declaration to be propaganda or considering surrender against their code).
Earlier this month, the United States, the European Union, Japan and Norway called on the Tamil Tigers to consider surrendering.
But Kurdish officials say their history of persecution in Iraq has been too traumatic for them to consider surrendering their armed forces yet.
With British troops stretched from the Balkans to the Gulf and Afghanistan, and with the possibility of new deployments in Africa, no government would consider surrendering, or even sharing, Gibraltar today".
That analysis may be overly pessimistic, but the valuation is almost certainly closer to being accurate than is the $11 figure, particularly given that the REIT is currently considering surrendering four of its 51 hotels — in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Tampa, Fla.; Greenville, S.C.; and Suffolk, Va.
The manner in which he talked of the future gave no indication that he was considering surrendering the captaincy, and he confirmed as much in some bullish post-match interviews.
After the eighty-six-millionth email dinged into my inbox, I did almost consider surrendering to popular pressure and dedicating an entire column to my analysis of whether such an arrangement is ever likely to happen and what it would mean for Google, and the wider world.
