| Samuel Giles Buckingham - 1894 - 572 páginas
...cannot hold mo responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many doad and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this array. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that... | |
| 1895 - 578 páginas
...despatch to Stanton, he exhibited the deep chagrin and unhappiness which he felt in these words: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons iu Washington; you have doneyour best tosacrifice this army." He had fought the battle of Gaines's... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 594 páginas
...men. ... I have lost this battle because my force was too small. ... I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or 1 My authorities for this account are: the correspondence, OR, vol. xi. parts i. and iii.; McClellan's... | |
| James Schouler - 1899 - 870 páginas
...addressed to Secretary Stanton, which charged that the Government had withheld from him reenforcements. " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army."1 No President but Lincoln would have tolerated such insulting language, which was evidently... | |
| George Congdon Gorham - 1899 - 528 páginas
...victory. As it is, the government cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly — I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...sustained this army. If you do not do so now the game is lost.1 Let the dispatch be compared with the facts as shown by the record, and its mendacity becomes... | |
| James Fowler Rusling - 1899 - 452 páginas
...and cannot hold me responsible for the :.suit * * * The Government has not sustained this army. * * * I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to T or to any other persons in Washington. "You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB The foregoing... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 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...you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. " Save your army at all events,"... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 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...you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. " Save your army at all events,"... | |
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