 | Mary Ashton Livermore - Flags - 1889 - 726 pages
...iron collar was removed from her neck by a blacksmith, and she was subsequently freed by militarj' authority. As we approached Washington, we were filled...united, and peace restored, by strategy, and not by 242 INCIDENT ON THE RAILROAD. hard desperate fighting. Why, then, should not the soldiers have furloughs?... | |
 | Mary Ashton Livermore - Flags - 1890 - 724 pages
...Washington, we were filled with amazement at the number of furloughed soldiers whom we met en rqute for the North. It seemed as if the army was being...united, and peace restored, by strategy, and not by 242 INCIDENT ON THE RAILROAD. hard desperate fighting. Why, then, should not the soldiers have furloughs?... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...men on furlough to similar causes. "The army," he said, "like the nation, has become demoralized by the idea that the war is to be ended, the nation united,...Why, then, should not the soldiers have furloughs?'"! In writing hi.; senator-brother, Sherman responded to the popular criticism of the generals, emphasizing:... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...46 1 . Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). The army, like the nation, has become demoralized by the idea that the war is to be ended, the nation united,...restored, by strategy, and not by hard desperate fighting. "Memorandum on Furloughs," November, 1862, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 5, p.... | |
 | William C. Davis - History - 1999 - 330 pages
...something done." That same day, Lincoln did it. 54 "The army, like the nation, has become demoralized by the idea that the war is to be ended, the nation united,...by strategy, and not by hard desperate fighting," Lincoln wrote in defense of his relief of McClellan. He knew that he would have to offer some explanation,... | |
 | Richard L. Kiper - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 420 pages
...memorandum that addressed the same issue. "The army," he wrote, "like the nation, has become demoralized by the idea that the war is to be ended, the nation united,...peace restored, by strategy, and not by hard desperate fighting."8 Although there is no direct evidence for the subject having arisen at the time, it is quite... | |
 | Mark E. Neely - History - 2002 - 276 pages
...absent on furlough from the Army of the Potomac. The army, like the nation, has become demoralized by the idea that the war is to be ended, the nation united, and the peace restored, by strategy, and not by hard desperate fighting."49 The account of the president's... | |
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At this very moment," he continued, "there are between seventy and a hundred thousand men absent on furlough from the Army of the Potomac. The army, like the nation, has become demoralized with the idea that the war is to be ended, the nation united,... 