GENERAL : — I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this, now, as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,... Life of U.S. Grant - Page 89by Benjamin Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - 1885 - 736 pagesFull view - About this book
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost ini-stinuibla service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...did — march the troops across the neck, run the butteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general Impo... | |
| Frank Moore - United States - 1864 - 868 pages
...done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburgh, I thought you should do what you finally did, march the troops across the neck, fun the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...grateful acknowledgment of the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...faith, except a general hope, that you knew better / *han I that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 878 pages
...grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except а еепегаГ hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...done the country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Ticksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march...transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any &ith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like,... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did—march the troops across the neck, rim the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and... | |
| 1864 - 878 pages
...grateful acknowledgment for the almbst inestimable service you hare done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did—march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought yon should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the battenes with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope... | |
| Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...general hope that you knew better than I, that the Vazoo Pasa expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,... | |
| George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I write to say a word further. When you reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should...general hope that you knew better than I that the Tazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand... | |
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