 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...opposing forces of the whole — Hood's army — it brings those who sat in darkness to see great light. " Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your whole army, officers and men. " Yours, very truly, A. LISOOLS." Two separate expeditions were sent out from the Mississippi to distract the enemy's attention... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 590 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing forces of the whole—Hood's army—it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light....whole army, officers and men. " Yours very truly, "A. LINCOLN." In concluding his official report, Sherman thus speaks of the services rendered by his subordinate... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - Bookbinding - 1865 - 568 pages
...Not only, he continued, " does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantages," etc., but " it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light." The preacher tells us, " no man can serve two masters," and the maxim is as true in war as in religion.... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 574 pages
...Not only, he continued, " does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantages," etc., but " it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light." The preacher tells us, " no man can serve two masters," and the maxim is as true in war as in religion.... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1866 - 728 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing forces of the whole — Hood's army— it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great...army, officers and men. " Yours, very truly, " A. LINCOLN." From Chattanooga to Savannah, and the end not yet. CHAPTER XVIII. THE CLOSE OF 1864— THE... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - United States - 1866 - 886 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole — Hood's army — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next ? I suppose it will be safer if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 pages
...opposing forces of the whole—Hood's army—it brings those who sat in darkness to see great light. "Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your whole army, officers and men. "Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN." Two separate expeditions were sent .out from the Mississippi to distract the enemy's attention... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Cumberland - United States - 1904 - 300 pages
...important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, HOOD'S army, it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. Hut what next ? I suppose it will be .safer that I leave GENERAL GRANT and yourself to decide. "A.... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, Hood's army, it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next ? I suppose it will be safer if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide." So highly do I prize this testimonial that... | |
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... indeed a great success. Not only does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantages ; but in showing to the world that your army could be divided, putting the stronger part to an important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish... 
