| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1866 - 840 páginas
...Government could not hold him responsible for the result. " If J. save this army now," he concludes, "I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this arifly."i SATURDAY, JUNE 28 — THE RETREAT. Lee had indeed won a formal victory, but nt a fearful... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1866 - 830 páginas
...him responsible for the result. "If I save this army now," he concludes, "I tell you plainly th»t I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army."J SATURDAY, JUNE S3.— ТПЕ RETREAT. Lee had indeed won a formal victory, but at a fearful... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 556 páginas
...the result ; he must have more troops. "If I save this army now," said he to the Secretary of War, "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." Was ever such petulance, such... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1867 - 848 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...not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, tha game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any... | |
| Charles A. Phelps - 1868 - 386 páginas
...every halt; and he never, in a single instance, telegraphed to President Lincoln as another had done, " 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.'' * Gen. Grant determined to... | |
| Charles Abner Phelps - 1872 - 404 páginas
...every halt; and he never, in a single instance, telegraphed to President Lincoln as another had done, " 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" * Gen. Grant determined to force... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1880 - 664 páginas
...must not hold him responsible for the result, he said: " I feel too earnestly to-night I have aeon too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise...If I save this army now I tell you plainly that I own no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington. You havo done your best to sacrifice this... | |
| Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - 1876 - 830 páginas
...addressed to Mr. Stanton on the 2Stli of June, twenty minutes after midnight, closed with these words: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any oilier person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." This phrase was suppressed... | |
| Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - 1876 - 826 páginas
...addressed to Mr. Stanton on the 28th of June, twenty minutes after midnight, closed with these words: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. Yon have done your best to sacrifice this army." This phrase was suppressed at... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1876 - 1086 páginas
...Gaines' Mill McClellan wrote to the Secretary of War a letter closing in the following singular terms : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to aoj other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The incompetency... | |
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