 | Edmund Burke - History - 1864 - 776 pages
...1862, and in it the President said : — " And now allow me to ask you, if you really think I could permit the line from Richmond via Manassas Junction...be presented by less than 20,000 unorganized troops ? This is a question which the country will not allow me to evade. There is a curious mystery about... | |
 | 1863 - 856 pages
...thousand then with yon, and en route to you. And now allow me to ask, " Do you really think I ibould permit the line from Richmond, via Manassas Junction,...except what resistance could be presented by less than twenty thousand unorganized troops?" This is a question which the country will not allow me to evade.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...satisfied ; I was constrained to substitute something for it myself. And now, allow me to ask you, " do you really think I should permit the line from...be presented by less than 20,000 unorganized troops ?" This is a question which the country will not allow me to evade. There is a curious mystery about... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 pages
...myself. And now allow me to ask, " Do you reallv think I should permit the line from. Richmond, «ta Manassas Junction, to this city, to be entirely open,...except what resistance could be presented by less than twenty thousand unorganized troops?" This is a question which the country will not allow me to evade.... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 280 pages
...with; on the same day their report was submitted, and their decision was — " That the requirement of the President, that this city (Washington) shall...except what resistance could be presented by less than twenty thousand unorganized troops." REPORT Of GENERAL GEORGE B. M'CLELLAN. 69 In the report of Generals... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...with; on the same day their report was submitted, and their decision was — " That the requirement of the President, that this city (Washington) shall...except what resistance could be presented by less than twenty thousand unorganized troops." In the report of Generals Hitchcock and Thomas, alluded to, it... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...nothing was substituted for it, of course I was constrained to substitute something for it myself; and e always and everywhere hostile to the principles of republican government, justice and the nati This is a question which the country will not allow mo to evade. "There is a curious mystery abont... | |
 | United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...nothing was substituted for it, of course I was constrained to substitute something for it myself. And allow me to ask, do you really think I should permit...be presented by less than 20,000 unorganized troops ? This is a question which the country will not allow me to evade. * " There is a curious mystery about... | |
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And allow me to ask, do you really think I should permit the line from Richmond, via Manassas Junction, to this city, to be entirely open, except what resistance could be presented by less than 20,000 unorganized troops? This is a question which the country... 
