 | American essays - 1914 - 1066 pages
...addressed 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... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...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... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...otherwise than that 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 that no... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 344 pages
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so 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." Stern and terrible words... | |
 | United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained thia 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. "Hon.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. othtr persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "G. IJ. McCi.ELLAN, Mnj.-Gen.... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pages
...McClellan wrote the 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.) We... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 280 pages
...than that 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 persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN". "Hon.... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...otherwise, than that 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 persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "' GB McCLELLAN. " ' To... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 498 pages
...otherwise than that 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 persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN, Major-General.... | |
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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. 
