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" If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "
The History of the Civil War in America: Comprising a Full and Impartial ... - Page 102
by John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1866
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 114

American essays - 1914 - 1066 pages
...addressed probably the most impertinent sentence ever written by a soldier to his military superior. 'If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.' But the same bitterness was manifested toward men much less deserving of it than the commander-in-chief...
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak." He concluded: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Stanton still...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 37

Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.l It is probable that no other...
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Letter of the Secretary of War, Transmitting Report on the Organization of ...

George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 280 pages
...than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I..." You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN". "Hon. EM STANTON." The headquarters camp at Savage's station was broken up early on...
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Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac: To ...

George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 498 pages
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN, Major-General. To HON. EM STANTON, Secretary of War. The head-quarters' camp, at Savage's...
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North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal

1864 - 656 pages
...McClellan wrote the following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." (28th June, 1862.) We shall seek no epithet to characterize language like this. All but the most bigoted...
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the north american review

The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pages
...McClellan wrote the following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." (28th June, 1862.) We shall seek no epithet to characterize language like this. All but the most bigoted...
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George Brinton McClellan : from Cadet to Major-General: A Biography

Markinfield Addey - 1864 - 574 pages
...otherwise — that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The day dawned hot and cheerless to the Army of the Potomac. No sound of a hostile gun disturbed the...
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Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 406 pages
...28th, in the bitterness of his soul, he had said, in a telegraphic message to the Secretary of War, "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That army he had saved; and the army was conscious of it. But there was nothing of triumph in his own...
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Letter of the Secretary of War: Transmitting Report of the Orgranization of ...

United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained thia army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. "You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN. "Hon. EM STANTON." The headquarters camp at Savage's station was broken up early on...
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