 | 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 army.' But the same bitterness... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...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... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...otherwise than that 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... | |
 | Democratic National Convention - Campaign literature - 1864 - 64 pages
...but with unfaltering faith in his mission: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly, that Fbwe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington....You have done, your best to sacrifice this army") — in that remarkable letter, written in camp, near Harrison's Landing, July 7th, 1862, with the enemy... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...than that the 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,... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 498 pages
...otherwise than that 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 persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN, Major-General.... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 280 pages
...than that 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 persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN".... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. to any othtr persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "G. IJ. McCi.ELLAN,... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...otherwise, than that 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 persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "' GB McCLELLAN.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 406 pages
...28th, in the 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... | |
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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. 
