 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1912 - 468 pages
...slight advance which he had made. "We have now," he * Taylor's "Lee," p. 224. says, "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... | |
 | John Joseph Bowen - 1914 - 310 pages
...have now ended the 6th day of very hard fighting. The result up to this time is much in our favor. But our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. We have lost up to this time eleven general officers killed, wounded, and missing, and probably 20,o00... | |
 | Charles Alfred Humphreys - 1918 - 504 pages
...send off this hasty despatch to the Secretary of War: "We have now ended the sixth day of very hard fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, but I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over four thousand prisoners in battle,... | |
 | 1922 - 768 pages
...be understood from a message to the President, dated May 11, 1864: 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. ... I think the loss of the enemy must... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - 1923 - 396 pages
...oftener quoted, perhaps, than anything he ever wrote. ' We have now ended,' he said, ' the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favour. But our losses have been heavy as well as those of the enemy. We have lost to this time eleven... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - 1990 - 1228 pages
...have now ended the 6th day of very hard fighting. The result up 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 officers killed, wounded and missing, and probably twenty... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - 1994 - 358 pages
...that have reached there since Burnside's departure. And on May llth: 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... | |
 | Al Kaltman - 2000 - 356 pages
...protracted one. On May 1 1th, Grant wrote to Halleck: We have now ended the 6th day of very hard fighting.. .our losses have been heavy as well as those of the enemy.... I am now sending back.. .all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and propose to... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 2001 - 785 pages
...and jotted a brief message, cigar firmly clinched between his teeth. "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." Grant estimated his casualties at 20,000.... | |
 | Mark Grimsley - 2002 - 330 pages
...o'clock this morning, have just reached this Department. He says: 'We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is...loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over 5,000 prisoners in battle, whilst he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I propose to fight... | |
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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... 
