 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 714 pages
...having taken over four thousand prisoner*, while he has taken from us but few, except a few stragglers. I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons...for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer. ... I am satisfied the enemy are very... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 618 pages
...prisoners, while he has taken from us but few, except a few stragglers. I am now sending back to B«lle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all 'summer. ... I am satisfied the enemy are very... | |
 | William Rattle Plum - Military telegraph - 1882 - 412 pages
...having taken over four thousand prisoners, whilst he has taken from ns but few, except a few stragglers. I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons...for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. After the battle of Spottsylvania, Fredericksburg... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 686 pages
...over foui thousand prisoners in battle, whilst he has taken from us but few except a few stragglers. I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons...for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. The arrival of reinforcements here will... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Generals - 1885 - 752 pages
...have taken over four thousand prisoners, while he has taken from us but few, except a few stragglers. I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons...for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. ... I am satisfied that the enemy is very... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 752 pages
...have taken over four thousand prisoners, while he has taken from us but few, except a few stragglers. I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons...for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. ... I am satisfied that the enemy is very... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 668 pages
...over foui thousand prisoners in battle, whilst he has taken from us but few except a few stragglers. I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons...for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. The arrival of reinforcements here will... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - History - 1888 - 574 pages
...this time is much in our favor. But our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. ... I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons...for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." A week was spent in manoeuvring to find... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1889 - 504 pages
...We did not know that a single sentence in that note would electrify the world. This the sentence : " I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions, and I propese to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." (") "I PROPOSE TO FIGHT IT OUT ON... | |
 | Lyman Jackman - United States - 1891 - 952 pages
...taken over four thousand prisoners in battle, whilst he has taken from us but few except stragglers. I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons...for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." — EDITOR. 1 A reconnoissance on the... | |
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... as those of the enemy. We have lost to this time eleven general officers killed, wounded and missing, and probably twenty thousand men. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater, we having taken over four thousand prisoners, whilst he has taken... 
