 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...characteristic dispatch : " SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, Dtcember 22. " To His EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT LINCOLN : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city...and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. "WT SHERMAN, Major- General." 550 551 roads connecting Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, and Savannah. The work... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1865 - 410 pages
...President this laconic message : "SAVANNAH, GA., December 22, 1864. " His Excellency President Lincoln ; " I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city...and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major-General." v In all the world's history of the Christmas times, was there ever a gift... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...crowning success of the campaign : SAVANMAH, G A., December 22. Пи Excellency Pretident Lincoln : I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city...and also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major-General. The following from Gen. Foster gives additional details of the capture :... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...of December to General Sherman, who on the 22d sent a dispatch to the President, presenting to him " as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah with one...about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.'' The fall of Savannah was not the only success which made the month of December glorious. It was preceded... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, December 22. " To His Excellency President LINCOLN: "I beg to present you, аз a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred...and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. (Signed) "W. T SHERMAN, Major- General." A few days later he issued the following order for the government... | |
 | Military art and science - 1865 - 618 pages
...and finesse, Sherman announced his achievement in the following brief dispatch to the President : — "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy yuns and pknty of ammunition, and also about twentij-fivi thousand oakx of cotton." Subsequently, on... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 870 pages
...crowning success of the campaign: ЗАУАМНАП, О A.. December 22. ait Excellency President Lincoln : I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fiftv heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN,... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...22. " To His Excellency President LINCOLN : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gin, the city оГ Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and...of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand balea of cotton. (Signed) "W. T SHERMAN, Major- General." A few days later he issued the following... | |
 | Daniel O'Gorman - 1865 - 506 pages
...despatches with regard to the capture of this important city : — " His Excellency President Lincoln, — I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton. — WT Sherman, Major-General."... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 758 pages
...enemy. Sherman announced his success in a characteristic despatch. He wrote to President Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift^ the city...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." And thus ended the story of the march to the sea. In his official report of his achievements, Gen.... | |
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I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. 
