| Orville James Victor - 1861 - 598 páginas
...time, sent this memorable dispatch to Washington : " HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD, May 11, 1804—8 AM " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting....enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater (than ours). We have taken over five thousand prisoners by battle, whilst he has taken from us but... | |
| 1864 - 348 páginas
...Secretary of War : "We have now ended the sixth day of very hard fighting. The result has been very much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as...those of the enemy- I think the loss of the enemy must begreater. We have taken over 5,000 prisoners in battle, while he has taken but few from us except... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 páginas
...following pithy but rather roseate bulletin : "HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD, > "May 11, 18U4— 8 AM f " t attack also on this side." " HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, ".SAVAGE'S STATION- innch in our favor. " Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1864 - 852 páginas
...quietly, and on that morning Grant sent his first official dispatch to the Secretary of War. He said: " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is very much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think Ihe low... | |
| Phineas Camp Headley - 1864 - 424 páginas
...Washington. It reveals at once his consciousness of fatal havoc, and yet unyielding courage and hope : " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is very much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of Ihe enemy. I think the loss... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 848 páginas
...which General Grant sent to Washington on the night of the llth summed up the results as follows : — We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting....losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. J think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners in battle,... | |
| 1865 - 278 páginas
...latter. The same morning, Lieutenant-General GRANT telegraphed as follows to Secretary STANTON : . " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is much in our favor. " HEAD-QCARTERS IN THE FIELD. May 11, 1864, 8 AM " Our losses have been heavy as well as those of the... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 866 páginas
...which General Grant sent to Washington on the night of the llth summed up the results as follows : — We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in onr favor. Our losses have been heavy, na well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 886 páginas
...which General Grant sent to Washington on the night of the llth summed up the results as follows :— "We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is nmch in our favor. Onr losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the... | |
| Evan Morrison Woodward - 1865 - 374 páginas
...skirmishing took place. General Grant in an official report to the Secretary of War, dated this day, says : " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is very much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss... | |
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