 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 500 pages
...mentioned above, you can hold your present position, provided, and so long as, you can keep the James River open below you. • If you are not tolerably...escaped your attention. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. PS — If at any time yon feel able to take the offensive, you are not restrained from doing sO. AL... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...mentioned above, you can hold your present position; provided, and so long as you can keep the James River open below you. If you are not tolerably confident...do not suppose it can have escaped your attention. A. LINCOLN. PS — If at any time you feel able to take the offensive, you are not restrained from... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...mentioned above, you can hold your present position ; provided, and so long as you can keep the James River open below you. If you are not tolerably confident...do not suppose it can have escaped your attention. A. LINCOLN. PS — If at any time you feel able to take the offensive, you are not restrained from... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...reinforcements mentioned above, you can hold your present position ; provided, and so long as you can keep James river open below you. If you are not tolerably confident...communication cut on the river below you, yet I do not guppose it can have escaped your attention, " Yours, very truly, "Major General o A LINCOLN. " PS—If... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...keep the James river open below you. If you are not tolerably confident you -jau keep the James rivet open, you had better remove as soon as possible. I...your attention. " ' Yours very truly, " 'A. LINCOLN. "' PB—If at any time you feel able to take the offensive, you are not restrained from doing so. "... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...mentioned above, you can hold your present position ; provided, and so long as you can keep the James river open below you. If you are not tolerably confident...expressed any apprehension as to the danger of having your communications cut on the river below you, yet I do not suppose it can have escaped your attention.... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...mentioned above, you can hold your present position; provided, and so long as you can keep the James River open below you. If you are not tolerably confident...remember that you have expressed any apprehension &s to the danger of having your communication cut on the river below you, yet I do not suppose it can... | |
 | United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...mentioned above, you can hold your present position ; provided, and so long as you can keep the James river open below you. If you are not tolerably confident...can keep the James river open, you had better remove aa soon as possible. I do not remember that you have expressed any apprehension as to the danger of... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...mentioned above, you can hold your present position ; provided, and BO long as yon can keep the James River open below you. If you are not tolerably confident...do not suppose it can have escaped your attention. A. LINCOLN. P. 8. — If at any time you feel able to take the offensive, you are not restrained from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...mentioned above, you can hold your present position ; provided, and so long as you can keep the James River open below you. If you are not tolerably confident...do not suppose it can have escaped your attention. A. LINCOLN. P. 8. — If at any time you feel able to take the offensiv, you are not restrained from... | |
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I but give it as my opinion that with the aid of the gunboats and the reinforcements mentioned above, you can hold your present position — provided, and so long as, you can keep the James River open below you. If you are not tolerably confident you... 
