| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 842 páginas
...that it was my intention to sell Vicksburg. Follow me, and you will see the cost at which I will sell Vicksburg. When the last pound of beef, bacon, and...the last grain of corn ; the last cow, and hog, and • tween the members of the Confederacy, and to control the navigation of the Mississippi River. The... | |
| Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 944 páginas
...it was шу intention to sell Vicksburg. Follow me, and you will see the cost at which I will sell Vicksburg. When the last pound of beef, bacon, and...been consumed, and the last man shall have perished m the trenches, then, and only then, will I sell Vicksburg." It now became evident to Grant that the... | |
| Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds - 1865 - 414 páginas
...that it was my intention to sell Vicksburg. Follow me, and you will see the cost at which I will sell Vicksburg. When the last pound of beef, bacon and...flour, the last grain of corn, the last cow and hog, horse and dog shall have been consumed, and the last man shall have perished in the trenches, then,... | |
| Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds - 1865 - 422 páginas
...Vicksburg. When the last pound of beef, bacon and flour, the last grain of corn, the last cow and hog, horse and dog shall have been consumed, and the last...man shall have perished in the trenches, then, and not till then, will I sell Vicksburg." It became evident that the works could not be carried by assault,... | |
| Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 páginas
...Yicksburg. When the last pound of beef, bacon, an'l I'.our, the last gram of com, the last cow, and boff, n by re-enforcements alone. And once more, lût mo ш the trenches, then, and only then, will I sell Yicksburg." It now became evident to Grant that the... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1866 - 662 páginas
...that it was my Intention to sell Yicksburg. Follow me, and you will see the cost at which I will sell Vicksburg. When the last pound of beef, bacon, and...trenches, then, and only then, will I sell Vicksburg," He was virtually as good as his word. Finding provisions growing scarce, with no prospect of any fresh... | |
| Phineas Camp Headley - 1866 - 794 páginas
...that it was my intention to sell Vicksburg. Follow me, and you will see the cost at which I will sell Vicksburg. When the last pound of beef, bacon, and...perished in the trenches, then, and only then, will I soil Vicksburg." The bold words indicate the determination with which the rebels intended to resist... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1866 - 586 páginas
...that it was my intention to sell Vicksburg. Follow me, and you will see the cost at which I will sell Vicksburg. When the last pound of beef, bacon, and...and dog shall have been consumed, and the last man sJiaU have perished in the trenches, then, and only (ten, ioiU I wll Vicksburg." But his spirit was... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1866 - 688 páginas
...that it was my intention to sell Vicksburg. Follow me, and you will see the cost at which I will sell Vicksburg. When the last pound of beef, bacon, and flour, the last grain of com, the last cow and hog and horse and dog shall have been consumed, and the last man shall have perished... | |
| Charles A. Phelps - 1868 - 386 páginas
...that it was my intention to sell Vicksburg. Follow me, and you will see the cost at which I will sell Vicksburg. When the last pound of beef, bacon, and...trenches, — then, and only then, will I sell Vicksburg." Forty-seven days and nights the work went on: Seven thousand mortar-shells, and four thousand five... | |
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