 | Edmund Burke - History - 1892 - 720 pages
...despatch to Lincoln announcing his arrival on the coast and his capture of Savannah, Sherman wrote : " I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns, plenty of ammunition, and 25,000 bales of cotton." On Jan. 10, 18(55, he received the... | |
 | History - 1892 - 704 pages
...despatch to Lincoln announcing his arrival on the coast and his capture of Savannah, Sherman wrote : " I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns, plenty of ammunition, and 25,000 bales of cotton." On Jan. 10, 1865, he received the... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...dispatch : " SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, Dtcember 22. " To His EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT LINCOLN : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with...fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. "WT SHERMAN, Major- General." 550 551 roads connecting... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...of the campaign : SAVANMAH, G A., December 22. Пи Excellency Pretident Lincoln : I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with...fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major-General. The following from Gen. Foster... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 574 pages
...note to President Lincoln, announcing this happy termination of the campaign :— " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with...fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." The number of pieces of artillery captured, as subsequently... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 590 pages
...note to President Lincoln, announcing this happy termination o the campaign:— " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with...fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." The number of pieces of artillery captured, as subsequently... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1865 - 410 pages
...message : "SAVANNAH, GA., December 22, 1864. " His Excellency President Lincoln ; " I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with...fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major-General." v In all the world's history... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...of December to General Sherman, who on the 22d sent a dispatch to the President, presenting to him " as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah with one...fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.'' The fall of Savannah was not the only success which made... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, December 22. " To His Excellency President LINCOLN: "I beg to present you, аз a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred...fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. (Signed) "W. T SHERMAN, Major- General." A few days later... | |
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I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. 
