 | John Esten Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 496 pages
...desire yon to dismiss from your minds certain phrases, which I am sorry to find much in vogue among you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions, and holding them ; of lines of retreat, and bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position which a soldier should desire... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...I shall endeavor to give you. " I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them—of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. "The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...give yon. Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking...and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance... | |
 | Alonzo Hall Quint - Massachusetts - 1867 - 572 pages
...English. f *, » \ ' J . - H U^-lA^ * ,~u>he had held his, it would have been better for Massachusetts] ; of lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas." The latter were discarded .when supplies came down to green corn; the former were not, when they led... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Generals - 1866 - 752 pages
...distinction you arc capable of achieving. That opportunity I shall endeavor to give you. " I constantly hear of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and loses of supplies. Let us dismiss such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupj... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...give you. Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking...of lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies. Let ns discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue among you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions, and holding them — of lines of retreat, and bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy... | |
 | John Mead Gould - Maine - 1871 - 910 pages
...give yon. Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear constantly of taking...and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1871 - 684 pages
...desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue among you. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them, of lines of retreat and base* of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position which a soldier should desire... | |
 | James Moore (M.D.) - 1875 - 582 pages
...men of enlarged military experiences. It cast reflections on his predecessors. " I hear," said he, " of taking strong positions and holding them, of lines...let us discard such ideas. Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to taJce care of themselves." This want of respect... | |
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taking strong positions and holding them," of "lines of retreat," and of "bases of supplies. 
