 ... great success. Not only does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantages ; but in showing to the world that your army could be divided, putting the stronger part to an important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing...  Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography - Page 293by Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | De Benneville Randolph Keim - Generals - 1904 - 498 pages
...nev service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, Hood's army, it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next? I suppose it will be safer that I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. A. LINCOLN. FROM SAVANNAH TO GOLDSBORO. This... | |
 | De Benneville Randolph Keim - Generals - 1904 - 510 pages
...nev service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, Hood's army, it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next? I suppose it will be safer that I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. A. LINCOLN. FROM SAVANNAH TO GOLDSBORO. This... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1904 - 692 pages
...force of the whole — Hood's army — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. . . . Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your whole army, officers and men." ' These generous utterances of Lincoln were very different from Stanton's carping complaint that more... | |
 | Edward Robins - Generals - 1905 - 406 pages
...it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next! I suppose it will be safer if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. Please...acknowledgments to your whole army, officers and men." It is not every President of the United States, either before or after Lincoln, who would have so frankly... | |
 | Edward Robins - Generals - 1905 - 364 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole—Hood's army—it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next? I suppose it will be safer if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1906 - 476 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, — Hood's army, — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light....— officers and men. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO OFFICER IN COMMAND AT LEXINGTON. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, December 27, 1864. OFFICER... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole — Hood's army — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light....acknowledgments to your whole army, officers and men." Congress, by joint resolution,' tendered the thanks of the Nation to Sherman, for his march to the... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole — Hood's army — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light....acknowledgments to your whole army, officers and men." Congress, by joint resolution, tendered the thanks of the Nation to Sherman, for his march to the sea,... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1906 - 612 pages
...vanquish the old opposing force of the whole — Hood's army — it brings those who sat injdarkness to see a great light. But what next? I suppose it will be'Tate ii I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. Please make my grateful acknowledgments to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 362 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, — Hood's army, — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light....— officers and men. Yours very truly, A. Lincoln. SHIELDS, JAMES. Lost Townships, August 27, 1842. Dear Mr. Printer : I see you printed that long letter... | |
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