 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1863 - 770 pages
...We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail fmally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far...Richmond. " Recurring to the idea of going to Richmond pn the inside track, the facility of supplying from the side away from the enemy, is remarkable, as... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at...the inside track, the facility of supplying from the side-way from the enemy is remarkable, as it were, by the different spokes of a wheel, extending from... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at...than far away. If we cannot beat the enemy where he now'is, we never can, he again being within the intrenchments of Richmond. Recurring to the idea of... | |
 | Edwin Winchester Stone - Rhode Island - 1864 - 448 pages
...order, that the army should " cross the Potomac below instead of above the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge." " Recurring to the idea of going to Richmond on the...inside track, the facility of supplying from the side way from the enemy," he considered remarkable. " I should think it preferable," he added, " to take... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - History - 1864 - 324 pages
...immortality. " As we must beat him somewhere or fail finally," said his excellency, speaking of General Lee, "we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away." The results of General Pope's experience at " beating the enemy near to" Washington, recent as they... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 344 pages
...immortality. " As we must beat him somewhere or fail finally," said his excellency, speaking of General Lee, " we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away." The results of General Pope's experience at " beating the enemy near to" Washington, recent as they... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 852 pages
...which wo should not waive. . We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at...again being within the intrenchments of Richmond."* The arguments of the President proved so much in accordance with the necessities of the position, that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at...he now is, we never can, he again being within the intrenchnients of Richmond. Recurring to the idea of going to Richmond on the inside track, the facility... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him some where, or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near...never can, he again being within the intrenchments at Richmond. " Recurring to the idea of going to Richmond on the inside track, the facility of supplying... | |
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In coming to us, he tenders us an advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away. If we cannot beat the... 
