 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle or repulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy not...gotten to you. Less than a week ago you notified us reinforcements were leaving Richmond to come in front of us. It is the nature of the case, and neither... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle, or a repulse, it is the price...to you. Less than a week ago you notified us that reinforcements were leaving Richmond to come in front of us. It is the nature of the case, and neither... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...the government has not sustained his army. To this the President replies, on the 28th : " If you have had a drawn battle, or a repulse, it is the price...Washington he would have been upon us before the troops sent could have got to you. " Save your army at all events. Will send re-enforcements as fast as we... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - History - 1864 - 324 pages
...I could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle or a repulse, it is the price we...Washington, he would have been upon us before the troops sent could have got to you. Less than a week ago you notified us that reinforcements were leaving Richmond... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle or a repulse, it is the price we...Washington, he would have been upon us before the troops sent could have got to you. Less than a week ago, you notified us that reenforeements were leaving... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle or a repulse, it is the price we...Washington, he would have been upon us before the troops sent could have got to you. Less than a week ago you notified .us that re-enforcements were leaving... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 344 pages
...I could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle or a repulse, it is the price we...Washington, he would have been upon us before the troops sent could have got to you. Less than a week ago you notified us that reinforcements were leaving Richmond... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle or a repulse, it is the price we...Washington, he would have been upon us before the troops sent could have got to you. Less than a week ago you notified us that re-enforcements were leaving... | |
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I thought you were ungenerous in assuming that I did not send them as fast as I could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle, or a repulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy... 
