 | William Darrah Kelley - United States - 1885 - 110 pages
...If the administration had erred, the country should not have been made to suffer, nor our brave men cut down and butchered. Pope should have been sustained,...confusion in the army ; the rebels near the intrenchments of Washington, and some of the Cabinet alarmed and preparing to leave. The President was not insensible... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...design, a purpose, in breaking down Pope, without regard to the consequences to the country, — which is atrocious. It is shocking to see and know this,...remedy at present. McClellan has the army with him." So he recalled McClellan. Now there was a slightly similar situation. He believed Burnside had been... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 474 pages
...design, a purpose, in breaking down Pope, without regard to the consequences to the country, — which is atrocious. It is shocking to see and know this,...remedy at present. McClellan has the army with him." So he recalled McClellan. Now there was a slightly similar situation. He believed Burnside had been... | |
 | Gideon Welles - Reconstruction - 1911 - 638 pages
...has been a design, a purpose in breaking down Pope, without regard of consequences to the country. It is shocking to see and know this; but there is...remedy at present, McClellan has the army with him." My convictions are with the President that McClellan and his generals are this day stronger than the... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - History - 1913 - 246 pages
...with much emphasis : ' I must have McClellan to reorganize the army and bring it out of chaos . . . there is no remedy at present, McClellan has the army with him.' My convictions are with the President that McClellan and his generals are this day stronger than the... | |
 | Clarence Edward Noble Macartney - Generals - 1925 - 256 pages
...has been a design, a purpose in breaking down Pope, without regard of consequences to the country. - It is shocking to see and know this; but there is...remedy at present, McClellan has the army with him." To another Lincoln said, "There is no one in the army who can man these fortifications and lick these... | |
 | Don Fehrenbacher, Virginia Fehrenbacher - History - 1996 - 674 pages
...there has been a design, a purpose in breaking down Pope without regard of consequences to the country. It is shocking to see and know this, but there is...remedy at present. McClellan has the army with him. — Welles-1,I,113. {A} In a later version of the same discussion, the above quotation is preceded... | |
 | James V. Murfin - History - 2004 - 476 pages
...has been a design—a purpose in breaking down Pope, without regard of consequences to the country. It is shocking to see and know this; but there is...remedy at present, McClellan has the army with him.' "" close associates. Even these must be interpreted in light of the association itself. In addition... | |
 | Ward McAfee - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 258 pages
...disaster at Manassas, bringing disgrace to a rival. Lincoln told Secretary of the Navy Gideon Wells, "It is shocking to see and know this, but there is no remedy 28 David Herbert Donald, Lincoln At Home, Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Family Life (New York:... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...Welles, despite the clear evidence that "there has been a design, a purpose in breaking down Pope . . . there is no remedy at present. McClellan has the army with him." M Lincoln described the reinstatement of McClellan "in the face of ... treasonable misconduct" the... | |
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I must have McClellan to reorganize the army and bring it out of chaos, but there has been a design, a purpose in breaking down Pope, without regard of consequences to the country. It is shocking to see and know this; but there is no remedy at present,... 
