| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 páginas
...dispatch to Stanton, complaining of defeat for the want of enough men, and concluding: "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." Before night (on the 28th)... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - 1903 - 566 páginas
...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 any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The incompetency in leading... | |
| Guy Carleton Lee - 1903 - 490 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 to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." From now on the story of McQellan's... | |
| Guy Carleton Lee - 1903 - 506 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 to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." From now on the story of McClellan's... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 páginas
...On the night of July 27 McClellan telegraphed to Secretary of War Stanton: " If I save this country 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 the army." Mr. Stanton, a man... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 páginas
...On the night of July 27 McClellan telegraphed to Secretary of War Stanton: " If I save this country 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 the army." Mr. Stanton, a man... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 428 páginas
...following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter: " 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." (a8th June, 1862.) We shall... | |
| Frank Abial Flower - 1905 - 598 páginas
...army to retreat, telegraphing to Stanton that he was "not responsible" for the result and closing: "If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." "Had such language been... | |
| Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 474 páginas
...close of a long despatch to the Secretary of War on the 28th General McClellan 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." When General Magruder, who... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 656 páginas
...'• I have lost this battle ^ )ecau8e m y force was too small. ... If I save this army Own story, 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.'' McClellan was a brave man... | |
| |