...go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you knew better than I that the Ya/.oo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you...you should go down the river and join General Banks. When you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...

...and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and the vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Banks; and when you turned northward east of the Big...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Halleck bestowed similar praise, and...

...except in a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like would succeed. "When you got below and took Port Gibson,...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Immediately after the ceremony of surrender...

...below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. On the 1st of August, * when Halleck received Grant's report, he wrote: In boldness of plan, rapidity...

...Vicksburg from the rear. "I feared it was a mistake," Lincoln wrote in his letter of congratulation. "I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." According to Grant's later reputation, however, he had done more than merely look to his immediate...

...below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port-Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks;...

...Rather than saying that he understood the situation as well as Grant, the President's message read: "When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,...join General Banks; and when you turned northward Kast of the Big Black, I feared you had made a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgement...

...below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port-Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks;...

...done the country. . . . When you got below Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you would go down the river and join General Banks, and when...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I wish now to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. unvexed to the sea."...

...did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,...join General Banks; and when you turned northward west of the Big Black, I feared you had made a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment...