 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong. " Yours truly, " A. LINCOLN." Vicksburg's... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than 1, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson,... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...did : march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you...you should go down the river and join General Banks. When you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...did : march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you knew better than I that the Ya/.oo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...did : march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you...Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity I thought you should go dowu the river and join General Banks. When you turned northward, cast of the Big Black, I feared it... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 394 pages
...neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except in a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like would succeed. "When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...did : march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you knew better than I that the Ynzoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. July... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. Letter... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. Letter... | |
| |
When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew... 
