| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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