 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought yon should go down, the rivor and join General Banks ; and when you turned northward,...now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you was right and I was wrong. Yours very Truly, A. LIN'COLX. Grant's successes, it was said, were owing... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1864 - 424 pages
...service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Abraham Lincoln was not ashamed to acknowledge that General Grant was... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...I thought yon should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the battenes with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. These victories,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any &ith, except a general hope that you knew better than I,...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. These victories,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than T, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. These victories,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 878 pages
...and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Tours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Major-General... | |
 | 1864 - 878 pages
...and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought yon should go down the river and join Gen. Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. off the white inhabitants and burned... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should 20 down the river and join Gen. Banks, and when you turued northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. PROCLAMATION... | |
 | Military art and science - 1864 - 690 pages
...Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I have now to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." We need dwell no longer upon the great actions which illustrate his career. We draw from them a few... | |
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally...acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong. " Yours, very truly, "A. LINCOLN." HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED NORTH AND SOUTH. The intelligence of the... | |
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When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew... 
