 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...some chance of success " with 20,000 ; but you afterwards telegraphed me you would require 35,000. To keep your army in its present position until it...reenforced would almost destroy it in that climate. In the mean time Pope's forces would be exposed to the heavy blows of the enemy without the slightest... | |
 | 1863 - 856 pages
...35,000, as the enemy was being largely retnforced. utterly impossible to fill it until new troops contd be enlisted and organized, which would require several...army in its present position until it could be so reinforced would almost destroy it in that climate. The months of August and September are almost fatal... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 852 pages
...thirty-five thousand, as the enemy was being largely reènforced. If your estimate of the enemy's strength was correct, your requisition was perfectly reasonable,...army in its present position until it could be so rcenforced would almost destroy it in that climate. The months of August and September are almost fatal... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 pages
...estimate of the enemy's strength was correct, your requisition was perfectly reasonable ; but it wag utterly impossible to fill it until new troops could...army in its present position until it could be so recnforced would almost destroy it in that climate. The months of August and September are almost fatal... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...require 83,000, as the enemy was being largely reenforced. " If your estimate of the enemy's strength bt_u_v_]. 6 + arc almost fatal to whites who live on that part of James river ; and, even after you receive the reenforcements... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 500 pages
...thirty-five thousand, as the enemy was being largely reinforced. If your estimate of the enemy's strength was correct, your requisition was perfectly reasonable...army in its present position until it could be so reinforced, would almost destroy it in that climate. The months of August and September are almost... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...require 35,000, as the enemy was being largely reenforced. If your estimate of the enemy's strength was correct, your requisition was perfectly reasonable...your army in its present position until it could be BO re-enforced, would almost destroy it in that climate. The months of August and September are almost... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...thirty-five thousand, as the enemy was being largely re-enforced. If your estimate of the enemy's strength was correct, your requisition was perfectly reasonable;...To keep your army in its present position until it cbuld be so re-enforced would almost destrov it in that climate. The months of August and September... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...largely reinbreed. If your esti mate of the enemy's strength was correct, your requisition was perfect'y reasonable; but it was utterly impossible to fill...weeks. " To keep your army in its present position intil it could be so reinforced, would almost destroy it in that climate. The months of August and... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...thirty-five thousand, as the enemy was being largely re-enforced. " If your estimate of the enemy's strength was correct, your requisition was perfectly reasonable...but it was utterly impossible to fill it until new troop could be enlisted and organized, which would require several weeks. " To keep your army in its... | |
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If your estimate of the enemy's strength was correct, your requisition was perfectly reasonable ; but it was utterly impossible to fill it until new troops could be enlisted and organized, which would require several weeks. To keep your army in its present... 
