 | Edmund Burke - History - 1864 - 776 pages
...time for you to strike a blow. By delay, the enemy will readily gain on you ; that is, he will gaiu faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you...you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help." The financial position of the Federal States at the beginning of the year was thus described by Mr.... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...this time, and if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow Let me tell you that it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this The country will not fail to note — is noting now — -that the present hesitation to move upon an... | |
 | 1863 - 856 pages
...precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you; that is, ho will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements alone. As to Gen. Wool's command, I understand it is doing for you precisely what a like number of your own... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 pages
...will relatively gain upon you ; that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reénforcementl than you can by reinforcements alone. And, once more,...help this. You will do me the justice to remember I oltrays insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manoseas,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements than you can by re-enforcements alone. " And, once more, let me tell you it is indispensable...this. You will do me the justice to remember I always wished not going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, as only... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...have but 85.000 when all en route to you shall have ivached you. How can the discrepancy of 23.000 be accounted for? : As to General Wool's command,...by reinforcements alone. And once more, let me tell yon, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. J am powerless to help this. You will do mn... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 426 pages
...ia the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you; that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements...powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remembcr I always insisted that going down the bay in xearch of a field, instead of fighting at or... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 344 pages
...it is the precise time to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you — that is, he will gain faster, by fortifications and reinforcements,...it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. Jam powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down... | |
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I suppose the whole force which has gone forward for you is with you by this time. And if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay, the enemy will relatively gain upon you — that is, he will gain faster by fortifications... 
