 | John Esten Cooke - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 694 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 which a soldier should desire... | |
 | Charles H. Banes - Pennsylvania - 1876 - 326 pages
...if meant to reflect upon the commander of the Army of the Potomac. Speaking of his plans, he says, " I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them, — of lines of retreat and bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas; success and glory are in the advance, — disaster and... | |
 | John Codman Ropes - United States - 1881 - 284 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...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... | |
 | United States - 1881 - 262 pages
...dismiss from your minds certain phrases which \Lftni sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. \jphear constantly of taking strong positions and holding...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... | |
 | Charles Folsom Walcott - Massachusetts - 1882 - 562 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...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... | |
 | Charles Folsom Walcott - Massachusetts - 1882 - 570 pages
...you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst yon. I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding...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... | |
 | Benjamin F. Cook - Massachusetts - 1882 - 194 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 "strong positions and holding them " —r of "lines of retreat," and of "bases of supplies." Let us discard such ideas. The strongest... | |
 | 1882 - 266 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 strong positions and holding them-,-of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 482 pages
...endeavor to give you. in the meantime, i desire you to dismiss certain phrases T am sorry to find in voguc amongst 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... | |
 | United States - 1886 - 864 pages
...shall endeavor to give you. Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which 1 am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you. I hear...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... | |
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taking strong positions and holding them," of "lines of retreat," and of "bases of supplies. 
