 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...be lost. ... I think Lee has made a gross mistake, and that he will be severely punished for it. ... I have all the plans of the rebels, and will catch...their own trap if my men are equal to the emergency." [War Records.] 6 If he had thrown forward his army with the vigor eral so fruitlessly favored by fortune... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...hope for a great success if the plans of the rebels remain unchanged. We have possession of Catoctin. I have all the plans of the rebels, and will catch...to cooperate at Chambersburg. My respects to Mrs. Lincoin. Received most enthusiastically by the ladies. Will send you trophies. All well and with God's... | |
 | Reunion Society of Vermont Officers - Local history - 1906 - 412 pages
...a great mistake and will be severely punished for it. The army is in motion as rapidly as possible. I have all the plans of the rebels and will catch them in their own trap, etc." This despatch shows that McClellan had the lost despatch before noon of the I3th, and that he... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...be lost. ... 1 think Lee has made a gross mistake, and that he will be severely punished for it. ... I have all the plans of the rebels, and will catch...their own trap if my men are equal to the emergency." [War Records.] 5 If he had thrown forward his army with the vigor eral so fruitlessly favored by fortune... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 870 pages
...they meant to reunite. "I have all the plans of the rebels," he telegraphed joyfully to Washington, " and will catch them in their own trap if my men are equal to the emergency." 1 But he failed of the vigor and confidence that such a discovery should .have prompted; for he threw... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 686 pages
...they meant to reunite. " I have all the plans of the rebels," he telegraphed joyfully to Washington, " and will catch them in their own trap if my men are equal to the emergency." 1 But he failed of the vigor and confidence that such a discovery should have prompted; for he threw... | |
 | Peter Smith Michie - 1901 - 534 pages
...September I3th, 12 M., it appears that this order reached his hands before noon of that day, for he says, " I have all the plans of the rebels, and will catch...their own trap if my men are equal to the emergency." A dispatch received by McClellan on the I3th, from Governor Curtin, stating that Longstreet's division... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 pages
...as rapidly as possible. I hope for a great success if the plans of the rebels remain unchanged. ... I have all the plans of the rebels, and will catch...emergency. I now feel that I can count on them as of old. . . . My respects to Mrs. Lincoln. Received most enthusiastically by the ladies." 1 McClellan acted... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - United States - 1906 - 368 pages
...motion as rapidly as possible. I hope for a great success if the plans of the rebels remain unchanged. I have all the plans of the rebels, and will catch...their own trap, if my men are equal to the emergency. And he proceeds to "catch the rebels." This sounds like an echo from Pope in his retirement, and seems... | |
 | Luther W. Hopkins - United States - 1908 - 256 pages
...felt that his hour of triumph had come. He sent the following dispatch to President Lincoln: * * * "I have all the plans of the rebels, and will catch them in their own trap. * * * General Lee's order to his army accidentally came into my hands this evening, and discloses his... | |
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I have all the plans of the rebels, and will catch them in their own trap, if my men are equal to the emergency. 
