 | American essays - 1914 - 1066 pages
...addressed 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... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...must not and can not hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night ; I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly — I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise...this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Major General. Hon. EM STANTON, Secrttary of War. The President to Major General... | |
 | George Brinton MACCLELLAN (General.) - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 676 pages
...must not, and cannot, hold me responsible for the restrlt. I feel too earnestly to-night, I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades, to feel otherwise...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... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. "I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise..."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... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. " I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise..."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... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...must not, and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night—I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise,...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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...not, and can not, hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night — I have seen owe no thanks to you, or to any othtr persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this... | |
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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. 
