 | John Jacob Anderson - 1899 - 402 pages
...sent a dispatch to the War Department, in which he said, "We have now (May 11) ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time,...have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it lakes all summer." 48. Who planned the Virginia campaign... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1899 - 364 pages
...these three battles. But Grant knew this was the quickest way to end the war, and wrote to Lincoln : " Our losses have been heavy as well as those of the enemy ; but I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." The news of these losses was... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - 1899 - 764 pages
...Halleck: We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting, the result to this time in our favor. But our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. We have lost to this time eleven general officers, killed, wounded and missing, and probably 20,000... | |
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - 1900 - 438 pages
...forward." General Grant, the morning of the nth of May, wrote Halleck: "We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor. But our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. We have lost to this time, eleven general... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - 1901 - 532 pages
...village. At the second line of intrenchments Hancock's men. SPOTTSTLVANIA COURT HODSE. ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is...been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think those of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over 5,000 prisoners by battle, while he has taken... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1901 - 524 pages
...have now ond line of intrenchments Hancock's men. BrOTTSÏLTAjni СОСИТ HOCSI. ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is...in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well ae those of the enemy. I think those of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over 5,000 prisoners... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1972 - 1248 pages
...UNITED STATES, Near Spotsylvania Court-House, May 11, 1864 — 8.30 am We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor. But our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. We have lost to this time 1 1 general... | |
 | Walter Allen - 1901 - 184 pages
...hero of Vicksburg, he sent this bulletin to the War Department : " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor. But our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. We have lost to this time 11 general... | |
 | Sidney S. Grannis - 1901 - 88 pages
...1864, 8:30 am MAJ. GEN. HALLECK, Chief of Staff of Army, General : We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting— the result to this time is much in our favor, but our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. We have lost to this time eleven general... | |
 | George Reeser Prowell - 1903 - 408 pages
...Grant sent this famous dispatch to the War Department: "We have ended the sixth day of hard fighting. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." "In the afternoon of May 13, the brigade... | |
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We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the* enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners... 
