 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1888 - 1312 pages
...applies against yon, but cannot apply in your favor. Change positions with the enemy, and think yon not he would break your communication with Richmond within the next twentyfour hours Š¢ You dread his going into Pennsylvania, but if he does so in full force he gives up his communications... | |
 | Isaac Newton Arnold - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 492 pages
...own.' You aeem to act aa If this applies against you, but cannot apply In your favor. Change positionĀ« with the enemy, and think you not he would break your communication with Richmond within the next twenty -four hours? You dread his going Into Pennsylvania. But If he does so In full force, he gives... | |
 | Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - History - 1994 - 278 pages
...fall of 1862, he could explain matters clearly to his general with the "slows." "You dread his [Lee's] going into Pennsylvania. But if he does so in full force, he gives up his communications . . . and you have nothing to do but to follow, and ruin him. . . . If we can not beat him when he... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - History - 2004 - 452 pages
...general for not operating on Lee's communications and for being so anxious about his own, and said: "Change positions with the enemy, and think you not he would break your communication with Richmond in the next twenty-four hours? . . . You are now nearer Richmond than the enemy is, by the route that... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1866 - 828 pages
...exposing your own.' You seem to act as if this applies against you, but cannot apply in your favor. Change positions with the enemy, and think you not...hours? You dread his going into Pennsylvania. But if be does so in full force he gives up his communications to you absolutely, and you havo nothing to... | |
 | B. Franklin Cooling - History - 2007 - 354 pages
...general's focus on Confederates reentering Maryland and going on to Pennsylvania, Lincoln countered, "[Lee] gives up his communications to you absolutely, and you have nothing to do but to follow and ruin him."27 Then, shifting to his perennial interest in targeting Richmond, the president proffered that,... | |
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You seem to act as if this applies against you, but cannot apply in your favor. Change positions with the enemy, and think you not he would break your communication with Richmond within the next twenty-four hours? You dread his going into Pennsylvania;... 
