| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak." He concluded: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Stanton still... | |
| American essays - 1914 - 1066 pages
...probably the most impertinent sentence ever written by a soldier to his military superior. 'If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.' But the same bitterness... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.l It is probable... | |
| England - 1864 - 808 pages
...many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." But he speedily... | |
| Scotland - 1864 - 808 pages
...many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persona in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." But he speedily... | |
| United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...government has not sustained thia army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. "You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN.... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 406 pages
...bitterness of his soul, he had said, in a telegraphic message to the Secretary of War, "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That army he had... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN. Hon.... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 426 pages
...bitterness of his soul, he had said, in a telegraphic message to the Secretary of War, " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That army he had... | |
| George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. u If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. 44 You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLKLLAN,... | |
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