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" In addition to what I have already said, I only wish to say to the President that I think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. "
Letter of the Secretary of War: Transmitting Report on the Organization of ... - Page 132
by George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 242 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

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...
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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War in Three Parts

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1863 - 770 pages
...very large re-enforcements, and send them at once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely reiterated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. I should have gained this battle with...
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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: Army of the Potomac

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Ball's Bluff, Battle of, 1861 - 1863 - 766 pages
...very large re-enforcements, and send them at once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely reiterated a truth which .to-day has been too plainly proved. I should have gained this battle with...
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Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress ..., Volume 2

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...very large re-enforcements, and send them at once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please...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....
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Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac: To ...

George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 502 pages
...very large reinforcements, and send them at once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please...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...
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The Life, Campaigns, and Public Services of General McClellan. (George B ...

George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...very large reinforcements, and send them at once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please...me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak—I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I...
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Report of Major-General B. McClellan: Upon the Organization of the Army of ...

George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...once. " I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our materiel. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...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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Report of Maj.-Gen. George B. McClellan, Aug. 4, 1863: With an Account of ...

United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Potomac, Army of the - United States - 1864 - 504 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our materiel. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...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...
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the ..., Volume 2

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...rCenforcements, and send them at once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think 1 can withdraw all our material. Please understand that...think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when J said that my force was too weak. I merely reiterated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved....
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Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac: To ...

George Brinton MACCLELLAN (General.) - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 676 pages
...very large reinforcements, and send them at once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please...President, that I think he is wrong in regarding me an ungenerous, when I said that my force was too weak. I merely reiterated a truth, which to-day has...
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