| James Gillespie Blaine - 1887 - 554 páginas
...Harrison's Landing, General McClellan telegraphed to the Secretary of War: " If I save this Army now, I tdl you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this Army." It is an old maxim, fellow-citizens,... | |
| John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 páginas
...Government must not and can not hold me responsible for the result. " I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...Government has not sustained this army. If you do not so now, the game is lost. " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you,... | |
| 1889 - 1016 páginas
...Government must not and can not hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night ; 1 have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. 1 It is probable that no other... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 558 páginas
...Government must not and can not hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night ; I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. w R If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no vol. xi., thanks to you or to any other... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 558 páginas
...Government must not and can not hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night ; I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. w R If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no vol. xi., thanks to you or to any other... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 560 páginas
...than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. w K If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no vol.' xi., thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. P. 6i.'. You have done your best to... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 598 páginas
...save the material and personJ l McClellan nel of the army. . . If I save this army now, I t°J^.^>"1 tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to U™1'. „. any other persons in Washington. You have done VoL' XL, your best to sacrifice this army."... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1891 - 424 páginas
...subordinate was ever before permitted to say to his superior officer without instant dismissal — " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington : you have done your best to sacrifice this army" To this dispatch the President... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 páginas
...Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. "I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...this army. If you do not do so now the game is lost. Three days later (July 1st) McClellan telegraphed : " I need fifty thousand more men. "With them we... | |
| charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 páginas
...Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. " I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Qovernment has not sustained this army. If you do not do BO now the game is lost. Three days later... | |
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