 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak." He concluded: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Stanton still expressed the extraordinary hope that Richmond would fall in a day or two. He had lately... | |
 | 1914 - 1066 pages
...probably the most impertinent sentence ever written by a soldier to his military superior. 'If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.' But the same... | |
 | 1889 - 1060 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.l It is probable... | |
 | 1864 - 808 pages
...many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." But he speedily... | |
 | 1864 - 808 pages
...many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persona in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." But he speedily... | |
 | George Brinton MACCLELLAN (General.) - 1864 - 676 pages
...now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLEIXAN, To HON. EM STANTON, Secretary of War. Major-G«neraI. The head-quarters' camp, at Savage's... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 256 pages
...now, the game is lost. "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. "You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN. "Hon. EM STANTON." The headquarters camp at Savage's station was broken up early on... | |
 | Democratic National Convention - 1864 - 64 pages
...faith in his mission: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly, that Fbwe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington. You have done, your best to sacrifice this army") — in that remarkable letter, written in camp, near Harrison's Landing, July 7th, 1862, with the enemy... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 324 pages
...that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Stern and terrible... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any othtr persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "G. IJ. McCi.ELLAN,... | |
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If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. 
