 | Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 848 pages
...with which I was charged ; but I felt it to be my duty, notwithstanding the desperate condition of ray command, from great fatigue, from want of provisions...sharp actions of Hooker, King, and Ricketts on the twenty -seventh and twenty-eighth, and the furious battle on the twenty-ninth, were estimated by me... | |
 | United States. Army. Department of Virginia - Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862 - 1863 - 80 pages
...from the direction of Washington ; but I determined again to give battle to the enemy on the 30th, and at least to lay on such blows as would cripple...reduced by losses in killed, wounded, missing and broken down men, during the severe operations of the two or three days and nights previous ; the sharp... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 852 pages
...Washington ; but I determined again to give battle to the enemy on the 30th, and, at least, to la}r on such blows as would cripple him as much as. possible,...sharp actions of Hooker, King and Ricketts on the 27th and 28th, and the furious battle on the 29th, were estimated by me and others as follows : McDowell's... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Pennsylvania - 1865 - 754 pages
...from the direction of Washington ; but I determined again to give battle to the enemy on the 30th, and at least to lay on such blows as would cripple...and delay as long as practicable any further advance towards the capital. I accordingly prepared to renew the engagement. At that time my effective forces... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Pennsylvania - 1865 - 760 pages
...from the direction of Washington ; but I determined again to give battle to the enemy on the 30th, and at least to lay on such blows as would cripple...and delay as long as practicable any further advance towards the capital. I accordingly prepared to renew the engagement. At that time my effective forces... | |
 | 1866 - 424 pages
...from the direction of Washington ; but I determined again to give battle to the enemy on the 30th, and at least to lay on such blows as would cripple...capital. I accordingly prepared to renew the engagement. BULL RUN, August 30, 1862 — 6,30 am COLONEL : You will immediately send to Alexandria an officer... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - United States - 1866 - 422 pages
...from the. direction of Washington ; but I determined again to give battle to the enemy on the 30th, and at least to lay on such blows as would cripple...capital. I accordingly prepared to renew the engagement. BULL RUN, August 30, 1862 — 6.30 am COLONEL : You will immediately send to Alexandria an officer... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...of an aggressive character." 11 In his official report, he says : "At that time, my effective force, greatly reduced by losses in killed, wounded, missing,...and broken-down men, during the severe operations of the two or three days and nights previous ; tbe sharp actions of Hooker, King, and Ricketts on the... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 pages
...character." 31 In his official report, he says: "At that time, my effective force, greatly rteduced by losses in killed, wounded, missing, and broken-down men, during the severe operations of the two or three days and nights previous; the sharp actions of Hooker, King, and Ricketts on the 27th... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...reduced by losses in killed, wounded, missing, and broken-down men, during the severe operations of the two or three days and nights previous ; the sharp actions of Hooker, King, and Ricketts on the 27th and 28th, and the furious battle on the 29th, were estimated by me and others as follows: McDowell's... | |
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... that any assistance would reach me from the direction of Washington ; but I determined again to give battle to the enemy on the 30th, and, at least, to lay on such blows as would cripple him as much as possible, and delay, as long as practicable,... 
