 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1905 - 934 páginas
...co-operating. Hardee's position was soon rendered untenable, and on December 22, 1864, Sherman telegraphed to President Lincoln, " I beg to present you as a...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." At Savannah Sherman received a dispatch from Grant,... | |
 | Henry I. Smith - 1903 - 396 páginas
...the following brief note to President Lincoln, announcing this happy termination of the campaign:' "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." The number of pieces of artillery captured, as subsequently ascertained by actual inspection and count,... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1903 - 500 páginas
...from General Sherman, dated at Savannah, December 22d, to the President, saying: "I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah with...and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Which suggested to the bright journalist of the day thisjeu... | |
 | Oscar Browning - 1903 - 588 páginas
...The city was occupied on December 21, and Sherman wrote to the President : " I beg to present you aa a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Sherman's entire loss during the march was only 764... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1903 - 484 páginas
...Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas-gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Thus ended Sherman's memorable Georgian expedition. Late in January, 1865, Sherman's army, singing... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1903 - 506 páginas
...Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas-gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Thus ended Sherman's memorable Georgian expedition. Late in January, 1865, Sherman's army, singing... | |
 | Francis Curtis - 1904 - 568 páginas
...despatch : SAVANNAH, GA., December 22, 1864. To His EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT LINCOLN, Washington, DC : I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major-General. In the meantime Thomas... | |
 | 1906 - 456 páginas
...tramped into South Carolina. The next day Sherman entered the city, and sent the following telegram to President Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as...hundred and fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." It was a remarkable Christmas gift indeed, and one... | |
 | 1906 - 462 páginas
...tramped into South Carolina. The next day Sherman entered the city, and sent the following telegram to President Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as...hundred and fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." It was a remarkable Christmas gift indeed, and one... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry, Mrs. Blanche Swett Mowry - 1906 - 492 páginas
...message to President Lincoln which reached him on Christmas eve. It read thus: "I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah with...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." He then spent the winter in Georgia and South Carolina,... | |
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I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. 
