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 the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew... The Rebellion Record: June '63-Nov. '63 - Page 29edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861
...thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the butteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general Impo that you knew better than I, that the Ynzoo Pass expedition and the like would succeed. When you... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1864 - 340 pages
...of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 8 pages
...I thought yon should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the battenes with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never...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... | |
 | 1864
...of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did—march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below;...Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When yon got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought yon should go down the river... | |
 | Military art and science - 1864
...his Yicksburg campaign. The remarkable letter of President Lincoln is the noblest epitome. He says, " When you got be-low, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,...when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I have now to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was... | |
 | HENRY J. RAYMOND. - 1864
...of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did—march the troops across the neck, rim the batteries with the transports, and thus go below;...faith, except a general hope that you knew better than T, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Electronic book - 1864 - 510 pages
...of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...faith, except a general hope, that you knew better / *han I that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864
...of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except а еепегаГ hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 496 pages
...of Ticksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any &ith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like,... | |
 | United States - 1865 - 257 pages
...of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did, ma.rch the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below;...when you, turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was... | |
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