 | American essays - 1875 - 782 pages
...in high terms of Dahlgren, and Hazen, and rather well of Kilpatrick; while of Lincoln he •ays, " Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more...greatness, combined with goodness, than any other." He finds fault with Fremont, Buell, McClernand, Halleck, Hosecrans, Burnside, Hooker, and Butler, expressing... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 428 pages
...Goldsboro'. We parted at the gangway of the River Queen, about noon of March 28th, and I never saw him again. Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more...greatness, combined with goodness, than any other. ADMIRAL PORTER'S ACCOUNT OF THE INTERVIEW WITH MR. LINCOLN. THE day of General Sherman's arrival at... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 626 pages
...country would be once more at peace. "When I left him," says General Sherman, "I was more than ever impressed by his kindly nature, his deep and earnest...occurred which changed all his plans. CHAPTER XL. MOBILE. SroitEMAN's RAID.— SALISBURY.— MORILE.— WILSON'S RAID.— FIGHT WITH FORREST.— TAEINO OF SELMA.—... | |
 | Clara Emma Cheney - United States - 1884 - 574 pages
...Goldsboro'. Sherman has thus borne testimony to the character of the kindly President : " Of all the men whom I ever met, he seemed to possess more of the elements...greatness combined with goodness than any other." On the 2oth of March, Stoneman left Knoxville, Tenn., at the head of a body of cavalry, and rode into... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 568 pages
...an immortal ode, calls him " New birth of our new soil, the first American." General Sherman says, "Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more...greatness, combined with goodness, than any other." General Grant, after having met the rulers of almost every civilized country on earth, said Lincoln impressed... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 554 pages
...an immortal ode, calls him " New birth of our new soil, the first American." General Sherman says, "Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more...elements of greatness, combined with goodness, than P. 828." any other." General Grant, after having met the rulers of almost every civilized country on... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 558 pages
...an immortal ode, calls him " New birth of our new soil, the first American." General Sherman says, "Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more of the ele••>i(?i™irs.'" ments of greatness, combined with goodness, than P. 3M." any other." General... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - United States - 1891 - 646 pages
...AYe parted at the gangway of the River Queen, about noon ot March 28th, and I never saw him again. Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more...greatness, combined with goodness, than any other. ADMIRAL PORTER'S ACCOUNT OF THE INTERVIEW WITH MR. LINCOLN. THE day of General Sherman's arrival at... | |
 | Clara Emma Cheney - United States - 1895 - 590 pages
...Goldsboro'. Sherman has thus borne testimony to the character of the kindly President : " Of all the men whom I ever met, he seemed to possess more of the elements of greatness combined with goodne_ss than any other." 33 On the 2oth of March, Stoneman left Knoxville, Tenn., at the head of... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 656 pages
...an immortal ode calls him "new birth of our new soil, the first American." General Sherman says, " Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more...greatness, combined with goodness, than any other." General Grant, after having met the rulers of almost every civilized country on earth, said Lincoln impressed... | |
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Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more of the elements of greatness, combined with goodness, than any other. 
