 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...perhaps none whatever — can be attached to this; but it is possible, and ought to be their policy. " I am completely checked by the weather. The roads...can foresee, for the season is altogether abnormal. "In view of these circumstances, I present for your consideration the propriety of detaching largely... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 426 pages
...completely checked by the weather. The roads and fields are literally impassable for artillery,—almost so for infantry. The Chickahominy is in a dreadful...weather, the poisonous miasma 20* which the sun drew tip from the saturated soil, and the heavy toils of the men, began to tell sadly upon the general health... | |
 | United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...The roads and fields are literally impassable for artillery, almost so for infantry. The Chiekahominy is in a dreadful state; we have another rain-storm...can foresee, for the season is altogether abnormal. •' In view of these circumstances, I present for your consideration the propriety of detaching largely... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 344 pages
...artillery, almost so for infantry. The Chickahominy is in a dreadful state ; we have another rain storm on our hands. I shall attack as soon as the weather...can foresee, for the season is altogether abnormal. 238 LIFE OF GEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN. In view of these circumstances, I present for your consideration... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - History - 1864 - 324 pages
...artillery, almost so for infantry. The Chickahominy is in a dreadful state ; we have another rain storm on our hands. I shall attack as soon as the weather...can foresee, for the season is altogether abnormal. In view of these circumstances, I present for your consideration the propriety of detaching largely... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...artillery—almost so for infantry. The Chickahominy is in a dreadful state. We have another rain storm on our hands. I shall attack as soon as the weather...can foresee, for the season is altogether abnormal. In view of these circumstances, I present for your consideration the propriety of detaching largely... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 500 pages
...artillery, almost so for infantry. The Chickahominy is in a dreadful state ; we have another rain storm on our hands. I shall attack as soon as the weather...which no one can foresee, for the season is altogether abuormal. In view of these circumstances, I present for your consideration the propriety of detaching... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...for infantry. The Chickahominy is in a dreadful state ; we have another rain storm on our hands. 44 1 shall attack as soon as the weather and ground will...can foresee, for the season is altogether abnormal. 44 In view of these circumstances, T present for your consideration the propriety of detaching largely... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...Chickahominy is in a dreadful state. We have another rain-storm on our hands. I shall attack as Boon as the weather and ground will permit ; but there...can foresee, for the season is altogether abnormal. In view of these circumstances, I present for your consideration the propriety of detaching largely... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...force he had, as soon as the weather and ground will permit — but there will be a delay," he added, " the extent of which no one can foresee, for the season is altogether abnormal." The Secretary of War replied that Halleck would be urged to comply with his request if he could safely... | |
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In view of these circumstances, I present for your consideration the propriety of detaching largely from Halleck's army to strengthen this ; for it would seem that Halleck has now no large organized force in front of him, while we have. If this cannot... 
