...e a little before noon on April 7th, establishing headquarters at the village hotel. He told Ord, Gibbon, and Wright, who had called at the hotel, that he was thinking of sending a communication to General Lee to pave the way to the stopping of further bloodshed ; he had heard, too, that Ewell, then a prisoner, had said that it was the duty of the authorities to negotiate for peace now, and that for every...