 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 598 pages
...northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled up on the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front ami rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or to kick the other. " If Lee weuld come to my side... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled up on the riter like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front...fair chance to gore one way or to kick the other. If Lee would come to my side of the river I would keep on the same side and tight him, or act on the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...one word, I would not take any risk .of being entangled up on the rher like an ox jumped half oter a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear...fair chance to gore one way or to kick the other. If Lee would come to my side of the river I would keep on the same side and fight him, or act on the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...take any risk of being entangled up on the rher like an ox jumped half oxer a fence and liable to lie torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore one way or to kick the other. If Lee would come to my side of the river I would keep on the same gide and fight him, or act on the... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Presidents - 1866 - 264 pages
...he warns Hooker not to run any risk of being entangled on the Rappahannock — " like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front...fair chance to gore one way or to kick the other." On the 10th he warns Hooker not to " go south of the Rappahannock upon Lee's moving north of it. I... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - American literature - 1869 - 546 pages
...being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half oner a fence, and liable to lie torn by doyx, front and rear, -without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other." Ludicrous perhaps, but to the point; the "Rail-Splitter" was not always dignified,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river [Rappahannock], like an ox jumped half-way over a fence, and liable to be torn by dogs front...fair chance to gore one way, or to kick the other. Again, June 10, 1863, writing to General Hooker: If left to me, I would not go south of the Rappahannock... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - United States - 1870 - 318 pages
...to the south of it. I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence, and liable to be torn by dogs,...and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other." Five 'days afterwards, the President wrote once more: " I think Lee's army, and not... | |
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In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other. 
