 | Samuel Livingston French - 1906 - 382 páginas
...the Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel earnestly to-night. I 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. ' ' In any other country perhaps,... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 622 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... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - 1906 - 576 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...do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this anny now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 766 páginas
...he wrote to the Secretary of War in a spirit half of despair and half of insubordination, saying : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice it." After the battle of Malvern Hill McClellan... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 626 páginas
...when his fault-finding reached the height of telegraphing to the Secretary of War, " If I save the army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The President answered... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 606 páginas
...when his fault-finding reached the neight of telegraphing to the Secretary of War, " If I save the army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The President answered... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1907 - 414 páginas
...brought the army to a pass so critical, he breaks out: "The Government has not sustained this army. If I save this army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." 2 Still more unbecoming was... | |
 | John O'Hanlon - 1907 - 408 páginas
...McClellan forwarded the following unwarranted and spiteful telegram to Mr Stanton, Secretary of War: — "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 doue your best to sacrifice this army." M'CI.KU.AS SUPERSEDED BY GESEHAL... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - 1910 - 448 páginas
...bitterness of spirit to the Secretary of War in Washington (Mr. Stanton) on the twentyeighth of June: "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington [obviously meaning Mr. Lincoln]. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." McClellan, with an... | |
 | Joseph Beatty Doyle - 1911 - 544 páginas
...the Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly tonight I 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.]" Had the dispatch as printed... | |
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I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. 
