 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 620 pages
...With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations....full weight of the responsibilities now devolving upon me ; and I know that if they are met, it will be due to those armies, and, above all, to the favor... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 598 pages
...not to disappoint your expectation. I feel the full weight of the responsibilities now devolving upon me and I know that if they are met, it will be due...that Providence which leads both nations and men." No (lays of routine were requisite for him to grasp the whole mighty machinery of the army. March 10th... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 842 pages
...With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations....leads both nations and men." On the llth of March, General Grant returned to Nashville. On the 12th an order was issued from the War Department at Washington,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pages
...aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many battle-fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations....now devolving on me; and I know that, if they are properly met, it will be duo to those armies; and, above all, to the favor of that Providence which... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1864 - 424 pages
...aid of the noble armies who have fought on so many battle fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibility now devolving on me. I know that, if it is properly met, it will be due to these armies... | |
 | Charles Wheeler Denison - 1864 - 358 pages
...With the aid of the noble armies who have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel the full weight of the responsibility now devolving on me. I know that if it is properly met it will be due to these armies... | |
 | 1865 - 866 pages
...With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations....12th, the following order was issued at Washington: WAR DEF AKTMKXT, ADJ ПТАХТ GEUIRAL'S OFFICE, 1 WASHINGTON, March 12. ) Cfeneral Ordere No. 98.... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 pages
..."With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations....that Providence •which leads both nations and men." General Grant was then introduced to the Cabinet, and some time was spent in conversation. The new... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 864 pages
...With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations....that Providence which leads both nations and men. Gen. Grant announced his assumption of command under this appointment by a General Order, issued at... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 866 pages
...to disappoint your expectations. I feel the fall weight of the responsibilities now devolving on mo, and I know that if they are met, it will be due to...that Providence which leads both nations and men. Gen. Grant announced his assumption of command under this appointment by a General Order, issued at... | |
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Mr. President, I accept the commission, with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought in so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel... 
