 | William Rattle Plum - 1882 - 408 páginas
...thousand effective troops, but not at any one time. June 28, he telegraphed Stanton : "If I save this 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. " That was while nine... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1884 - 700 páginas
...the line of the James River, General McClellan had telegraphed the 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 done your best to sacrifice this army." Perhaps no such dispatch was... | |
 | Reunion Society of Vermont Officers - 1906 - 412 páginas
...to wring the heart of President Lincoln by sending him a despatch in which he said : "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." Then came the retreat through... | |
 | M. Quad - 1885 - 582 páginas
...the government 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 person in Washington I You have done your best to sacrifice thisarmy! Such a dispatch could... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1887 - 506 páginas
...could not be taken away. General McClellan sent a last despatch to Secretary Stanton : " 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." It was regarded as very discourteous.... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 588 páginas
...regarded as a great achievement, declaring to Stanton while it was being accomplished, "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington." But how could he dare to claim credit for it now ? If one can hardly repress... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1887 - 554 páginas
...lying at Harrison's Landing, General McClellan telegraphed to the 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 done your best to sacrifice this Army" It is an old maxim, fellow-citizens,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 838 páginas
...(lav, and he closed the despatch to Sec. Stanton with the bold assertion: "If 1 save this army now, 1 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." On the third day. Saturday,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 834 páginas
...Richmond the next day, and he closed the despatch to Sec. Stanton with the bold assertion: "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." On the third day, Saturday,... | |
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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. 
