 | William Jewett Tenney - 1866 - 843 páginas
...Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicimtv, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Humes, aad when yau turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared...right and I was wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. M, ijor-CiMicr.il GRANT. Major-Gen. Halleck, the General-in-Chief, in his annual report, thus speaks... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1866 - 521 páginas
...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...go down the river and join General Banks ; and when yon turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal... | |
 | J.B. JONES - 1866
...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...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1866
...succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Great Gulf, and the vicinity, I thought you should g<? down the river and join General Banks ; and when you...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a perlonal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong Yours very truly, (Signed) A. LINCOLN.... | |
 | John Beauchamp Jones - 1866
...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...took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought yon should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black,... | |
 | JOHN S. C. ABBOTT - 1866
...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, Great Gulf, and the vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks ; and when... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - 1868 - 560 páginas
...hope that you knew hotter than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition mid the like could succeed. AVhen you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and...and I was wrong. " Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN." Halleck, stirred to unwonted enthusiasm, also wrote : — " In boldness of plan, rapidity of execution,... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1868
...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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Rarely as such words have reached a... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1868 - 465 páginas
...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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment tJiat you were right and I wag wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Congratulations... | |
 | EDWARD D. MANSFIELD - 1868
...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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." Halleck also was liberal in his praise... | |
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When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew... 
