| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...he is wrong 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... | |
| American essays - 1914 - 1066 pages
...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... | |
| Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...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... | |
| England - 1864 - 808 pages
...many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If I save the 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 he speedily... | |
| Scotland - 1864 - 808 pages
...many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persona in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." But he speedily... | |
| 1864 - 656 pages
...following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter : " 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." (28th June, 1862.)... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...ever before permitted to say to his superior officer without instant dismissal — " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington : you have done your best to sacrifice this army." To this dispatch the... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not 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. Hon.... | |
| George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 280 pages
...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
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this & company to any othtr persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "G. IJ. McCi.ELLAN,... | |
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