 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1863 - 778 pages
...the government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splen did army I have the honor to command ; and if it is destroyed...its fate. But if the result of the action which will occur to-morrow, or within a short time, is a disaster, the responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 770 pages
...the government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splen did army I have the honor to command ; and if it is destroyed...its fate. But if the result of the action which will occur to-morrow, or within a short time, is a disaster, the responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 766 pages
...the government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splen did army I have the honor to command ; and if it is destroyed hy overwhelming numbers, can at least die with it, and share its fate. But if the result of the action... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 198 pages
...the decisive point, and that all the available means of the Government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splendid...a disaster, the responsibility cannot be thrown on tny shoulders: it must rest where it belongs. Since I commenced this, I have received additional intelligence,... | |
 | George Brinton MACCLELLAN (General.) - 1864 - 676 pages
...the decisive point, and that all the available means of the government, should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do, with the splendid...within a short time, is a disaster, the responsibility can not be thrown on my shoulders, it must rest where it belongs. Since I commenced this, I have received... | |
 | David Wright Judd - 1864 - 446 pages
...necessity of reinforcements ; that this was the decisive point, and that all should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do, with the splendid...numbers, can at least die with it and share its fate I shall probably be attacked to-morrow, and now go to the other side of the Chickahominy to arrange... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 256 pages
...the decisive point, and that all the available means of the government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splendid...overwhelming numbers, can at least die with it and share ita fate. But if the result of the action which will probably occur to-morrow, or within a short time,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...the decisive point, and that all the available means of the Government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splendid...if it is destroyed by overwhelming numbers, can at leapt die with it and share its fate. But if the result of the action which will probably occur to-morrow,... | |
 | J. G. BARNARD - 1864 - 118 pages
...(Oh, that in such a moment surely every reader will aspirate such an army had but a leader,) and if destroyed by " overwhelming numbers" "can at least die with it and share its fate." for once, however, he feels that " there is no use in again asking for reinforcements." Thus in the... | |
 | John Gross Barnard - 1864 - 130 pages
...(Oh, that in such a moment surely every reader will aspirate such an army had but a leader j) and if destroyed by " overwhelming numbers " " can at least die with it and share its fate." For once, however, he feels that " there is no use in again asking for reinforcements." Thus in the... | |
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I regret my great inferiority in numbers, but feel that I am in no way responsible for it, as I have not failed to represent, repeatedly, the necessity of reinforcements ; that this was the decisive point, and that all the available means of the Government... 
