 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...despatch, I have the honor to receive from you, in a spirit of fault-finding, and that you have not found leisure to say one word in commendation of the...achievements of this army, or even to allude to them. I have abstained from giving the number of guns, colors, small arms, prisoners, &c., captured, until... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1863 - 770 pages
...despatch, I have the honor to receive from you, in a spirit of fault-finding, and that you have not found leisure to say one word in commendation of the...achievements of this army, or even to allude to them. I have abstained from giving the number of guns, colors, small arms, prisoners, &c., captured, until... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Ball's Bluff, Battle of, 1861 - 1863 - 766 pages
...despatch, I have the honor to receive from you, in a spirit of fault-finding, and that you have not found leisure to say one word in commendation of the...achievements of this army, or even to allude to them. I have abstained from giving the number of guns, colors, small arms, prisoners, &c., captured, until... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 406 pages
...me advised of both, so far as you know them. "HW HALLECK, " General-in-Chief. " Major-General Gr. B. MCCLELLAN." In reply to this curt and ungracious message,...officer. It was as follows : — "HEAD-QUARTERS ARMY OP THE POTOMAC, September 19. " As an act of justice to the merits of that most excellent officer,... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 280 pages
...regret that you find it necessary to couch every despatch I have the honor to receive from you in a spirit of fault-finding, and that you have not yet...achievements of this army, or even to allude to them. " I have abstained from giving the number of guns, colors, small arms, prisoners, &c., captured, until... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...regret that you find it necessary to couch every despatch I have the honor to receive from you in a spirit of fault-finding, and that you have not yet...achievements of this army, or even to allude to them. " I have abstained from giving the number of guns, colors, small arms, prisoners, &c., captured, until... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 344 pages
...regret that you find it necessary to couch every despatch I have the honor to receive from you, in a spirit of fault-finding, and that you have not yet...achievements of this army, or even to allude to them." This contemptuous indifference to the feelings which make up and maintain the military spirit and the... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 500 pages
...regret that you find it necessary to couch every dispatch I have the honor to receive from you, in a spirit of fault-finding, and that you have not yet...achievements of this army, or even to allude to them. I have abstained from giving the number of guns, colors, •mall arms, prisoners, &c., captured, until... | |
 | United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...regret that you find it necessary to couch every despatch I have the honor to receive from you in a spirit of fault-finding, and that you have not yet...achievements of this army, or even to allude to them. " I have abstained from giving the number of guns, colors, small arms, prisoners, &c., captured, until... | |
 | England - 1864 - 808 pages
...regret that you find it necessary to couch every despatch I have the honour to receive from you in a spirit of fault-finding, and that you have not yet...achievements of this army, or even to allude to them." But the demeanour of these officials was only significant of their designs. McClellan, successful and... | |
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I regret that you find it necessary to couch every despatch I have the honor to receive from you in a spirit of fault-finding, and that you have not yet found leisure to say one word in commendation of the recent achievements of this army, or even to... 
