 | United States - 1875 - 1750 pages
...BIRCHARD HATES. letter to "a friend in Ohio, dated " Sheridan's Camp, August 24th, 1864," he says : " Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the...may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing." His wish for success was strong, but his sense of duty to his country in the field in the supreme hour... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 262 pages
...furlough, he adds : " An officer jit for duty, who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for Congress, ought to be scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no sufh thing" He had not, of course, sought the nomination, but at the urgence of his friends he had... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1882 - 790 pages
...political friends then wrote for him to return to Ohio and make the canvass. But Hayes replied : " Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped." four retaken from the enemy at Cedar Creek ;* the names of thirteen thousand prisoners were inscribed... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 686 pages
...might well have been expected of one who could write at the time he is said to have done so : " Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped." Having entered the army as a Major of Volunteers at the beginning of the war, General Hayes attained... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1887 - 834 pages
...canvassing the district, he answered : " Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stu mp was certainly made without reflection. An officer...electioneer for a seat in congress, ought to be scalped." He was elected by a majority of 2,400. The Ohio soldiers in the field nominated him also for the governorship... | |
 | Archaeology - 1900 - 536 pages
...without reflection. An officer fit for duty, who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for Congress, ought to be scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing." He was elected, nevertheless; but he did not take his seat until the war was over, and his soldiers... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...ARMY, \ NEAR CHARLESTON, VIRGINIA, AUGUST 24, 1864. f FRIEND S : Your favor of the seventh came to hand Monday. It was the first I had heard of the doings...posted in the policy deemed wise at headquarters, and can't guess as to the prospects of a general engagement. The condition and spirit of the army are good... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1888 - 308 pages
...absence to come home and stump his district to ensure his election, the General's answer said : ' ' Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped. " He frankly confessed that, having been nominated, he desired an election, but turned from looking... | |
 | Virginia Frances Townsend - Biography & Autobiography - 1888 - 462 pages
...slowly but surely coming. It came for Ulysses Grant July 23, 1885. O l.' RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES. " AN officer fit for duty, who at this crisis would...electioneer for a seat in Congress, ought to be scalped." In August, 1864, a brevet Major General, who had won his title by gallant services in the West Virginia... | |
 | United States - 1893 - 592 pages
...brevet major-general "for who suggested that he leave it and make the political canvass, he replied: "Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take...electioneer for a seat in congress ought to be scalped." When the election came on, however, he was chosen to the US house of representatives by more than 2,400... | |
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Your suggestion about getting a furlough to take the stump was certainly made without reflection. An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped. 
