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" I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. "
The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz: 1852-1863 - Page 354
by Carl Schurz - 1907
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The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States ...

Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...active operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen tho backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to...
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 758 pages
...active operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen t}ie backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to...
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The Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States: With ...

William Jewett Tenney - History - 1866 - 910 pages
...Let us understand each other. I have come to you from the West where we hare always seen the bucks of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek an adversary and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one instance...
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...active operations, and in placing yon in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, where we have always...has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one instance has the enemy been able to...
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Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee

James D. McCabe - Generals - 1866 - 752 pages
...positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. " 1 have come from the West, where ice /uzve always seen the backs of our enemies, — from an...it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him ic/ten found, — whose policy has been attack, and not defence. " In but one instance has the enemy...
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History of the American Civil War, Volume 1

John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...you from the West, where we have pope's offensive always seen the backs of our enemies—from or er ' an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him. when found—whose policy has been attack, and not defense. I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain...
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History of the American Civil War: Containing the events from the ...

John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...you from the West, where we have ponevjffcnsive always seen the backs of our enemies — from or cr' an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found — whose policy has been attack, and not defense. I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain...
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...active operations, and in placing yon in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the hacks of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat...
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A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee

John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1871 - 690 pages
...portion of General Pope's order which we have italicized. In an address to the army, he added further : " I have come to you from the "West, where we have always...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when found — where policy has been attack, and not defence. I presume I have been called...
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History of the First - Tenth - Twenty-ninth Maine Regiment: In Service of ...

John Mead Gould - Maine - 1871 - 910 pages
...think that some of us were a little fearful of him for two reasons — he was cavalryman, and "had come from the west where we have always seen the backs of our enemies;" not that the east was jealous of the west, but we believed that the western rebel army was worthless,...
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