 | Emory Upton - United States - 1912 - 546 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we have. In addition to what I have already said, 1 only wish to say to the President that I think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous, when I... | |
 | James Havelock Campbell - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 486 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of ten thousand (10,000) fresh men, I could gain the victory... | |
 | United States - 1916 - 544 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...ungenerous, when I said that my force was too weak. I merely reiterated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. I should have gained this battle with... | |
 | James Havelock Campbell - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 472 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...to say to the President that I think he is wrong in me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1916 - 500 pages
...with excessive eloquence for more men. " I only wish to say to the President," he remarked in it, " that I think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak." He concluded: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other... | |
 | Emory Upton, United States. War Department - United States - 1917 - 546 pages
...the Cliickahorniny, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...ungenerous, when I said that my force was too weak. I merely reiterated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. I should have gained this battle with... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 508 pages
...with excessive eloquence for more men. " I only wish to say to the President," he remarked in it, " that I think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak." He concluded: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - United States - 1923 - 396 pages
...victory. But McClellan had not been on the field and did not know. ' In addition,' he wrote Stanton, ' to what I have already said, I only wish to say to...intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If at this instant I could dispose of 10,000 fresh men, I could gain a victory to-morrow. I... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - United States - 1927 - 738 pages
...lost this battle because my force was too small." "I again repeat that I am not responsible for this." "I only wish to say to the President that I think...intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant I could dispose of ten thousand fresh men, I could gain a victory to-morrow."... | |
 | Don Carlos Seitz - Presidential candidates - 1928 - 462 pages
...the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we...intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of ten thousand (10,000) fresh men, I could gain the victory... | |
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In addition to what I have already said, I only wish to say to the President that I think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. 
