 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...orders about " driving the invader from our soil." " Will our generals," he exclaimed in private, " never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil." Meade, however, unlike McClellan, was only cautious, not lukewarm, nor without a mind of his own. The... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 548 pages
...same spirit that moved him to claim a great victory because ' Pennsylvania and Maryland were safe.' Will our generals never get that idea out of their heads ? The whole country is our soil." He regretted that he had not himself gone to the army and personally issued the order for an attack.... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 870 pages
...driving the invader from our soil " as the supreme effort requisite. " Will our generals," he inquired, " never get that idea out of their heads ? The whole country is our soil." And he regretted that he had not himself gone to the front and issued personally an order to attack... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 686 pages
...driving the invader from our soil " as the supreme effort requisite. " Will our generals," he inquired, " never get that idea out of their heads ? The whole country is our soil." And he regretted that he had not himself gone to the front and issued personally an order to attack... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 pages
...the same spirit that moved him to claim a great victory because Pennsylvania and Maryland were safe. Will our generals never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil." — John Hay's diary, Nicolay and Hay, vol. vii. p. 278. • OR, vol. xxvii. part iii. p. 567. « July... | |
 | Henry Sweetser Burrage - Biography & Autobiography - 1906 - 306 pages
...wounded, which were literally emptied out of his wagons into farmhouses and barns in his hasty retreat." that idea out of their heads ? The whole country is our soil. " J Early in the morning of July 5th, Meade discovered that Lee had withdrawn. In a despatch to Halleck... | |
 | Ester Singleton - World history - 1908 - 598 pages
..."driving the invader from our soil" as the supreme effort requisite. "Will our generals," he inquired, "never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil." And he regretted that he had not himself gone to the front and issued personally an order to attack... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 632 pages
...remark after the victory, of " driving the invader from our soil," Lincoln said with impatience : " Will our generals never get that idea out of their heads ? The whole country is our soil." — Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. VII, pp. 278-281. On July 14 Lincoln wrote to Meade (but... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - Cabinet officers - 1915 - 508 pages
...safe. The hearts of ten million people sunk within them when McClellan raised that shout last fall. Will our Generals never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil.'" "15th July. Robert Lincoln says the President is silently but deeply grieved about the escape of Lee.... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1915 - 502 pages
...safe. The hearts of ten million people sunk within them when McClellan raised that shout last fall. Will our Generals never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil.'" "15th July. Robert Lincoln says the President is silently but deeply grieved about the escape of Lee.... | |
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Will our Generals never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil. 
