 | Adam Badeau - 1868 - 792 páginas
...the 19th of February, three days after the fall of Fort Donelson, he telegraphed to Washington : " Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson,...this victory, and the whole country will applaud." J On the morning of the surrender, when General Buckner congratulated Smith on the gallant charge which... | |
 | 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
...some unaccountable freak of tempoattempted to destroy his reputation. He telegraphed to Washington: "Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson,...Major-General. You can't get a better one. Honor him for the victory, and the whole country will applaud." The Secretary of War, however, took a different view... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Manning Ferguson Force - 1881 - 232 páginas
...immediately upon the destruction of the bridge and railroad. On the 19th he telegraphed to Washington : "Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson,...the enemy's outworks. Make him a major-general. You cannot get a better one. Honor him for this victory, and the whole country will applaud." On the 20th... | |
 | 1881 - 232 páginas
...immediately upon the destruction of the bridge and railroad. On the 19th he telegraphed to Washington : " Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson,...the enemy's outworks. Make him a major-general. You cannot get a better one. Honor him for this victory, and the whole country will applaud." On the 20th... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1882 - 1042 páginas
...paralyze both places. HW HALLECK. HEADQUARTERS, Saint Louis, February 19, 1862. Major-General MCCLELLAN: Brig. Gen. Charles F. Smith, by his coolness and bravery...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
...ideas to Grant or not does not appear, but Halleck three days after telegraphed to Washington : " ' Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson,...him a major-general. You can't get a better one.' Grant also recommended Smith for a major-general for his behavior during the campaign" (Badeau, vol.... | |
 | 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
...on the 19th of February, three days after the fall of Fort Donelson, he telegraphed to Washington: "Smith, by his coolness and bravery at Fort Donelson,...this victory, and the whole country will applaud." \ On the morning of the surrender, when General Buckner congratulated Smith on the gallant charge which... | |
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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. 
