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" I knew, wherever I was, that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would help me out, if alive. "
Military and Civil Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: Leading Soldier of the Age ... - Page 218
by James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 734 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 121

1874 - 990 pages
...and in his famous letter to Grant, in March, 1864, he frankly writes, " My only points of doubt were in your knowledge of grand strategy and of books of science and history, but I confess your common-sense seems to have supplied all these." Of the men of books of science and history, some, at...
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Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography

Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 566 pages
...preparations, you go into battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts — no reserves ; and I tell you, it was this that made us act with confidence....you would help me out, if alive. " My only point of doubts was, in your knowledge of grand strategy, and of books of science and history ; but, I confess,...
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Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography

Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 572 pages
...preparations, you go into battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga—no doubts—no reserves; and I tell you, it w'as -this that made us act with confidence....knew, wherever I was, that you thought of me, and H I got in a tight place, you would help me out, if alive. " My only point of doubts was, jn your knowledge...
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Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography

Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 568 pages
...preparations, you go into battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts — no reserves ; and I tell you, it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew, wherever I was, that yon thought of me, and if I got in a tight place, you would help me out, if alive. " My only point...
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The Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from His Boyhood to the ...

Phineas Camp Headley - 1866 - 794 pages
...preparations, you go into battle without hesitation, ca at Chattanooga — no doubts — no reverses ; and I tell you, it was this that made us act with confidence....you would help me out, if alive. My only point of doubts was in your knowledge of grand strategy, and of books of science and history ; but, I confess,...
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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War at the Second ...

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1866 - 876 pages
...preparations, you go- into battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga—no doubts, no reserves; and I tell you it was this that made us act with confidence....thought of me; and if I got in a tight place you would come if alive. My only points of doubt were in your knowledge of grand strategy and of books of science...
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Supplemental Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: In Two ...

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1866 - 886 pages
...preparations, you go into battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts, no reserves ; and I tell you it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew, wherever I was, that yon thought of me; and if I got in a tight place you would come if alive. My only points of doubt were...
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The Home and Foreign Record of the Presbyterian Church in the ..., Volume 18

1867 - 612 pages
...preparations, you go into bafitle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts, no reserves ; and I tell you it was this that made us act with confidence....thought of me. and if I got in a tight place, you would come if alive." This extraordinary letter, like the private talks of Napoleon with his surgeon, O'Meara,...
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The Life of Ulysses S. Grant: General of the Armies of the United States

James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - 1868 - 456 pages
...preparations, you go into battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga, — no doubts, no answers, — and I tell you, it was this that made us act with confidence....grand strategy, and of books of science and history j but I confess your common sense seems to have supplied all these. " Now as to the future. Don't stay...
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Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865, Volume 1

Adam Badeau - 1868 - 790 pages
...preparations, you go into battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts — no reserves; and I tell you, it was this that made us act with confidence....knowledge of grand strategy, and of books of science and his tory ; but, I confess, your common-sense seems to have supplied all these. " Now, as to the future....
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