| Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1864 - 424 pages
...MANSION, WASHINOTON, July 13, 1888. To Major-General GRANT : Mr DEAR GENERAL : I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful...right and I was wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Abraham Lincoln was not ashamed to acknowledge that General Grant was " too smart for him." However... | |
| William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1866 - 910 pages
...when yau turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. M, ijor-CiMicr.il GRANT. Major-Gen. Halleck, the General-in-Chief, in his annual report, thus speaks... | |
| Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1866 - 794 pages
...and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to mako a personal acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, very truly, Several gentlemen were near the President at the time he received the news of Grant's success, some... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Civil war - 1866 - 688 pages
...you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a perlonal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong Yours very truly, (Signed) A. LINCOLN. CHAPTER XXV. GENERAL BUTLER'S CAMPAIGN IN NEVT ORLEANS. (M»jr 1 to Norember »,... | |
| James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 458 pages
...grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say further: when you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...and I was wrong. Yours very truly, '•A. LINCOLN." Grant was neither elated nor made vain by his victories. Nor did he, like some of our Generals, imagine... | |
| James Sanks Brisbin - Campaign literature, 1868 - 1868 - 424 pages
...When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did—march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with...and I was wrong. " Yours, very truly, "A. LINCOLN." CHAPTER XI. PREPARATIONS TO ATTACK JOHNSTON—SURRENDER OF PORT HUDSON—INVESTMENT OF JACKSON—JEFF.... | |
| James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 452 pages
...you first reached the vicinity of Vicksbnrg, I thought you should do what you finally did,—march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with...right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, "A. LINCOLN." Grant was neither elated nor made vain by his victories. Nor did he, like some of our Generals, imagine... | |
| James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...what you finally did, — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports aud thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except...and I was wrong. Yours very truly, '•A. LINCOLN." Grant was neither elated nor made vain by his victories. Nor did he, like some of our Generals, imagine... | |
| Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 pages
...and when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to mnke a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. CHAPTER XXIII. THE RESULTS OP THE SURRENDER OF VICKSBURG. — PREPARING FOR FURTHER SERVICE. — THE... | |
| Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 640 pages
...when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. " Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN." Halleck, stirred to unwonted enthusiasm, also wrote : — " In boldness of plan, rapidity of execution,... | |
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