 | Frank Moore - United States - 1864 - 868 pages
...you finally did, march the troops across the neck, fun the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general...succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks ; and when... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1864 - 424 pages
...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...succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks ; and when... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the battenes with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general...succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river, and join General Banks, and when... | |
 | 1864 - 878 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...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,...succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river, and join General Banks, and when... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 878 pages
...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...succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks, and when you... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...you finally did—march the troops across the neck, rim the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any 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 - 1864 - 544 pages
...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 better / *han I that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...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...succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...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...succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river, and join General Banks, and when... | |
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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... 
