| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...with excessive eloquence for more men. " I only wish to say to the President," he remarked in it, " that I think 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... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...side of Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If at this instant I could dispose of 10,000 fresh men, 1 could gain a victory to-morrow. I... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when .1 said that my force was too weak. I merely reiterated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved.... | |
| George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose often thousand (10,000) fresh men, L could gain the victory... | |
| United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of ten thousand (10,000) fresh men, I could gain the victory... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. -Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of ten thousand fresh men, I could gain the victory to-morrow.... | |
| George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 500 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...ungenerous, when I said that my force was too weak. I merely reiterated a truth, which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose... | |
| George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our materiel. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...ungenerous, when I said that my force was too weak. I merely reiterated a truth, which to-day has been too plainly proved. If at this instant I could dispose of... | |
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