 | 1980 - 224 páginas
...shall be glad to cover my retreat and save the material and personnel of the army. ... If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The manpower crisis would not... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 páginas
...because my force was too small. . . . 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 persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That McClellan escaped removal... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 páginas
...because my force was too small. . . . 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 persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That McClellan escaped removal... | |
 | Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - 1990 - 650 páginas
...comrades to feel otherwise than that 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 any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Document D Source:... | |
 | Clifford Dowdey - 1993 - 402 páginas
...added three lines which the Washington telegraph dispatcher deleted before delivering the message: "If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." In finally giving expression... | |
 | Byron Farwell - 1993 - 582 páginas
...destroyed by overwhelming numbers at least die with it and share its fate." He closed with "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."4 Gone now was any thought of... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 páginas
...possibility of capitulation. "If I save this Army now," McClellan concluded a message to Stanton on June 28, "I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this army." These final sentences... | |
 | Michael McHugh - 1998 - 228 páginas
...that the Govt has not sustained this Army. If you do not do so now the game is lost. If I save this Army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this Army. Geo. B. McClellan... | |
 | Gary W. Gallagher - 2000 - 304 páginas
...and cannot hold me responsible for defeat." He concluded with these incredible words: "If I save this army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your g Mi('.lt'llun\ ile1 iMo,i to re treat to thr... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - 2000 - 662 páginas
...that the Govt has not sustained this Army, If you do not do so now the game is lost. If I save this Army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this Army.68 As a matter of... | |
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If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. 
