...addressed probably the most impertinent sentence ever written by a soldier to his military superior. 'If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.' But the same bitterness was manifested toward men much less deserving of it than the commander-in-chief...

...too weak." He concluded: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Stanton still expressed the extraordinary hope that Richmond would fall in a day or two. He had lately...

...to cover my retreat and save the material and personnel of the army. ... If 1 save this army now, 1 tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. The kind and patient words with which President Lincoln replied to this unsoldierly and unmanly petulance,...

...which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of (10,000) ten thousand fresh men, I could gain the victory to-morrow. I know...done your best to sacrifice this army. GB MCCLELLAN, Major-General. To HON. EM STANTON, Secretary of War. The head-quarters' camp, at Savage's Station,...

...which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of (10,000) ten thousand fresh men, I could gain the victory to-morrow. I know...You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLEIXAN, Major-GeneraL To HON. EM STANTON, Secretary of War. The head-quarters' camp, at Savage's...

...defeat to a victory; as it is, the government must not, and cannot, hold me responsible for the restrlt. I feel too earnestly to-night, I have seen too many...You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLEIXAN, To HON. EM STANTON, Secretary of War. Major-G«neraI. The head-quarters' camp, at Savage's...

...Government must not, and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night—I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...your best to sacrifice this army. "' GB McCLELLAN. " ' To HON. BM STANTON.' " "The head-quarters camp at Savage's station was broken np early on the morning...

...feel too earnestly, to-night — I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise — that the Government has not sustained this army. If...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The day dawned hot and cheerless to the Army of the Potomac. No sound of a hostile gun disturbed the...

...wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now,...sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN. Hon. EM STANTON. Further communication with this officer was interrupted until, after his arrival at Harrison's Landing,...

...McClellan wrote the following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." (28th June, 1862.) We shall seek no epithet to characterize language like this. All but the most bigoted...