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" In addition to what I have already said, I only wish to say to the President that I think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. "
Report of Major-General B. McClellan: Upon the Organization of the Army of ... - Page 81
by George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 147 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...with excessive eloquence for more men. " I only wish to say to the President," he remarked in it, " that I think he is wrong 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...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 37

Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...at once. I shall draw back to this side of Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If at this instant I could dispose of 10,000...
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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War in Three Parts

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1863 - 770 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. I should have gained this battle with ten thousand fresh men. If, at this instant, I could dispose...
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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: Army of the Potomac

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Ball's Bluff, Battle of, 1861 - 1863 - 766 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...a truth which .to-day has been too plainly proved. I should have gained this battle with ten thousand fresh men. If, at this instant, I could dispose...
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Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress ..., Volume 2

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when .1 said that my force was too weak. I merely reiterated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved....
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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
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of...
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Letter of the Secretary of War, Transmitting Report on the Organization of ...

George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose often...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. -Please understand that in this battle we have lost...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of...
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The Life, Campaigns, and Public Services of General McClellan. (George B ...

George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak—I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I...
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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
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this bafctle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly pioved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of...
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