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" The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy. "Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves. Let us look before us... "
History of the American War - Page 121
by Henry Charles Fletcher - 1865
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 37

Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position that a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which...to take care of themselves. Let us look before us, and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance; disaster and shame lurk in the rear. . . . [Pope's...
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History of the United States: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 4

Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...us discard such ideaa The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which lie can most easily advance against the enemy. Let us...own to take care of themselves. Let us look before, and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear." Several...
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Biographical Sketches of Illinois Officers Engaged in the War Against the ...

James Grant Wilson - Illinois - 1862 - 212 pages
...lines of retreat—and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position the soldier should desire to occupy, is one from which...to take care of themselves. Let us look before us, and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear. Let us act...
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The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States, Volume 2

Joel Tyler Headley - United States - 1863 - 554 pages
...and of bases of supplies — let us discard such ideas." And again, " Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents and leave our own to take care of themselves." Aside from the bad taste of such language, casting as it did, an implied reproach on those generals...
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The Life of Stonewall Jackson: From Official Papers, Contemporary Narratives ...

John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1863 - 328 pages
...occupy, is the one from which he can most easily advance upon the enemy. Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of itself. Let us look before and not behind. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear." Such was the order...
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The American Annual Cyclopędia and Register of Important Events ...

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 pages
...occupy is one IV, mi which he eu most easily advance against the enemy. Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of itself. Let us look before us, and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance — disaster and...
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The Second Year of the War

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 324 pages
...occupy is the one from which he can most easily .advance upon the enemy. Let .us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of itself. Let us look before and not behind. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear." On establishing his...
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the ..., Volume 2

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...discard such ideas. " The strongest positiou a soldier should desiro to occupy is one from which ho s )Qm(Z t 2 p and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear. " Let us...
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Southern History of the War: The Second Year of the War

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 414 pages
...occupy is the one from which he can most easily advance upon the enemy. Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of itself. Let us look before, and not behind. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear." On establishing his...
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History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close ..., Volume 1

Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...of lines of retreat — and of bases of supplies. Let us discard auch ideas. "The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which...take care of themselves. " Let us look before us, and not behind. " Success and glory are in the advance. "Disaster and shame lurk in the rear. " Let...
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