| James Ford Rhodes - History - 1917 - 540 pages
...Station despatch to the Secretary of War. " I now know the full history of the day," he wrote. "On this side of the river (the right bank) we repulsed...attacks. On the left bank our men did all that men could do, all that soldiers could accomplish but they were overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, even after... | |
| Don Carlos Seitz - Presidential candidates - 1928 - 462 pages
...June 28, 1862, 12. 2O AM Hon. EM Stanton, Secretary of War: I now know the full history of the day. On this side of the river (the right bank) we repulsed...attacks. On the left bank our men did all that men could do, all that soldiers could accomplish, but they were overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, even... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 758 pages
...June 28, 1862, 12.20 AM Hon. EM Stanton, Seeretary of War : I now know the full history of the day. On this side of the river (the right bank) we repulsed...attacks. On the left bank our men did all that men could do, all that soldiers could accomplish, but they were overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, even... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 772 pages
...28, 1862, 12.20 AM Hon. EM Stanton, Seeretary of IVar : I now know the full history of the day. On this side of the river (the right bank) we repulsed...attacks. On the left bank our men did all that men could do, all that soldiers could accomplish, but they were overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, even... | |
| United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1194 pages
...POTOMAC, Savage Station, June 28, 1862— 12.20 am I now know the fall history of the day. On this aide of the river (the right bank) we repulsed several...attacks. On the left bank our men did all that men could do, all that soldiers could accomplish, but they were overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, even... | |
| Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 592 pages
...know the full history of the day. On this side of the river (the right bank) we repulsed several very strong attacks. On the left bank our men did all that men could do — all that soldiers could accomplish ; but they were overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, even... | |
| Michael McHugh - Generals - 1998 - 228 pages
...history of the day [June 27]. On this side of the river — the right bank — we repulsed several very strong attacks. On the left bank our men did all that men could do, all that soldiers could accomplish — but they were overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers even... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...THE POTOMAC, ) SAVAGE'S STATION, June 28, 1862, 12.20 AM j I now know the full history of the day. On this side of the river (the right bank) we repulsed...attacks. On the left bank our men did all that men could do, all that soldiers could accomplish, but they were overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, even... | |
| United States - 1884 - 1198 pages
...OF THE POTOMAC, Savage Station, June 28, 1862—12.20 am I now know the full history of the day. On this side of the river (the right bank) we repulsed...attacks. On the left bank our men did all that men coulcl do. all that soldiers could accomplish, but they were overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers,... | |
| Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 602 pages
...know the full history of the day. On this side of the river (the right bank) we repulsed several very strong attacks. On the left bank our men did all that men could do — all that soldiers could accomplish ; but they were overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, even... | |
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