This, I think, is exactly right as to how our forces should move. But please look over the dispatches you may have received from here, even since you made that order, and discover if you can, that there is any idea in the head of any one here of 'putting... Ulysses S. Grant - Page 179by Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 596 pagesFull view - About this book
| Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...look over the despatches you may have received from here even since you made that order and see if there is any idea in the head of any one here of putting our army south of the enemy or following him to the death in any direction. I repeat to you it will neither be done nor attempted... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1897 - 1172 pages
...south of the enemy and follow him to the death ; wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also.t This, I think, is exactly right as to how our forces should move; but please look over the despatches you may have received from here even since you made that order, and discover, if you can,... | |
| Adam Badeau - 1881 - 636 pages
...south of the enemy and follow him to the death ; wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also.' This I think is exactly right as to how our forces should move ; but please look over the despatches you may have received from here since you made that order, and discover, if you can, that... | |
| Adam Badeau - 1881 - 618 pages
...south of the enemy and follow him to the death ; wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also.' This I think is exactly right as to how our forces should move ; but please look over the despatches you may have received from here since you made that order, and discover, if you can, that... | |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - 686 pages
...south of the enemy, and follow him to the death. Wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also." This, I think, is exactly right, as to how our forces should move. But please look over the despatches you may have received from here, even since you made that order, and discover, if you can,... | |
| Carswell McClellan - 1887 - 320 pages
...himself south of the enemy, and follow him to the death. Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.' This I think is exactly right, as to how our forces...over the dispatches you may have received from here, even since you made that order, and discover, if you can, that there is any idea in the head of any... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 1036 pages
...our troops go also." Lincoln saw this despatch, and immediately sent Grant this characteristic reply: "This, I think, is exactly right as to how our forces should move; but please look over the despatches you may have received from here, even since you made that order, and discover, if you can,... | |
| Frank A. Burr, Richard Josiah Hinton - 1888 - 466 pages
...with instructions to put himself south of the enemy, and follow him to the death, etc. This, I 181 think, is exactly right, as to how our forces should...over the dispatches you may have received from here, even since you made that order, and discover if you can, that there is any idea in the head of any... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 580 pages
...himself south of the enemy and follow him to the death. Wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also.' This I think is exactly right, as to how our forces should move. But please look over the despatches you may have received from here, even since you made that order, and discover, if you can,... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 586 pages
...propriety, he telegraphed to Grant 1ะจ. on the 3d of August, quoting his dispatch given above, and adding, " This I think is exactly right, as to how our forces...army south of the enemy ' or of 'following him to the death1 in any direction. I repeat to you, it will neither be done nor attempted, unless you watch it... | |
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