 If you think you are not strong enough to take Richmond just now, I do not ask you to try just now. Save the army, material and personnel, and I will strengthen it for the offensive again as fast as I can. The governors of eighteen States offer me a new...  Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 444by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890Full view - About this book
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...have the impression that I blame you for not doing more than you can, please be relieved of such an impression. I only beg that, in like manner, you will not ask impossibilities of me." Much argument upon Lincoln's next important act may be saved by the simple observations that the problem... | |
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..."Major General GB MCCLELLAN." In a despatch from the President to me, on the 2d of July, he says : " If you think you are not strong enough to take Richmond just now, I do not ask you to. Try just now to save the army, material and personnel, and I will strengthen it for the offensive again as fast... | |
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