 Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson, when the battle was against us, turned the tide and carried the enemy's outworks. Make him a major-general. You can't get a better one. Honor him for this victory, and the whole country will applaud.  From Fort Henry to Corinth - Página 64por Manning Ferguson Force - 1881 - 204 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Adam Badeau - 1868 - 792 páginas
...the victor. f On the contrary, on the 19th of February, three days after the fall of Fort Donelson, he telegraphed to Washington : " Smith, by his coolness...the enemy's outworks. Make him a major-general. You can't get a better one. Honor him for this victory, and the whole country will applaud." J On the morning... | |
 | Henry Champion Deming - 1868 - 562 páginas
...Donelson ; and recommends to the authorities at Washington Gen. Smith for promotion, because he, " when the battle was against us, turned the tide, and carried the enemy's outworks;" but, out of regard to Gen. Grant's modesty, punctiliously abstains from all congratulations to him.... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1879 - 880 páginas
...from complimenting him, but from some unaccountable freak of tempoattempted to destroy his reputation. He telegraphed to Washington: "Smith, by his coolness...the enemy's outworks. Make him a Major-General. You can't get a better one. Honor him for the victory, and the whole country will applaud." The Secretary... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1880 - 646 páginas
...the Secretary of War, to recommend General CF Smith, a divisional commander, as the true victor : ' Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson,...carried the enemy's outworks. Make him a Major-General. Vol. 150.— No. 299. P You can't get a better one. Honour him for this victory, and the whole country... | |
 | Adam Badeau - 1881 - 760 páginas
...was against us, turned the tide and carried the enemy's outworks. Make him a major-general. You can't get a better one. Honor him for this victory, and the whole country will applaud." \ On the morning of the surrender, when General Buckner congratulated Smith on the gallant charge which had... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1882 - 1048 páginas
...HALLECK. HEADQUARTERS, Saint Louis, February 19, 1862. Major-General MCÜLELLAN : Brig. Gen. Charles F. Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson...the enemy's outworks. Make him a major-general. You can't get a better one. Honor him for this victory and the whole country will applaud. HW HALLECK,... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1882 - 1042 páginas
...HALLECK. HEADQUARTERS, Saint Louis, February 19, 1862. Major-General MCCLELLAN: Brig. Gen. Charles F. Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson when the battle was against us, turned tbe tide and carried the enemy's outworks. Make him a major-general. You can't get a better one. Honor... | |
 | J. Hagerty - 1884 - 156 páginas
...surrender. Whether Smith suggested these ideas to Grant or not does not appear, but Halleck three days after telegraphed to Washington : " ' Smith, by his coolness...the enemy's outworks. Make him a major-general. You can't get a better one.' Grant also recommended Smith for a major-general for his behavior during the... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 páginas
...Instead of Grant, he recommended for promotion a division commander, General CF Smith, as one who, ' by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson, when...turned the tide, and carried the enemy's outworks.' But Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary for War, formed his own opinion of the merits of the commander. 'What,... | |
 | Adam Badeau - 1885 - 722 páginas
...the victor, f On the contrary, on the 19th of February, three days after the fall of Fort Donelson, he telegraphed to Washington: "Smith, by his coolness...the enemy's outworks. Make him a major-general. You can't get a better one. Honor him for this victory, and the whole country will applaud." \ On the morning... | |
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