 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splendid army I have the honor to command; and if it is destroyed by overwhelming numbers, can at least dio with it, and share its fate. But if the result of the action, which will occur to-morrow, or within... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 pages
...should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do with the splendid army I have the honor to command; and, if it is destroyed by overwhelming...responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders; it must rest where it belongs. Since I commenced this, I have received additional intelligence, confirming... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do with the splendid army I have the honor to command ; and, if it is destroyed by overwhelming...numbers, can at least die with it and share its fate. Bnt, if the result of the action, which will probably occur to-morrow, or within a short time, is a... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1880 - 664 pages
...that a General can do with the splendid army I have the honor to command," he Bald, M and It It la destroyed by overwhelming numbers, can at least die with It and share Us fate. Bat If the result of the action, which will probably occur to-morrow, or.withln a short time,... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 672 pages
...should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do, with the splendid army I have the honor to command, and, if it is destroyed by overwhelming...within a short time, is a disaster, the responsibility can not be thrown on my shoulders ; it must rest where it belongs. Since I commenced this, I have received... | |
 | John W. Urban - United States - 1882 - 342 pages
...should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do with the splendid army I have the honor to command, and, if it is destroyed by overwhelming...responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders ; it must rest where it belongs." McClellan now believed the situation to be most critical, and he took the most... | |
 | John W. Urban - History - 1882 - 522 pages
...should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do with the splendid army I have the honor to command, and, if it is destroyed by overwhelming...of the action, which will probably occur to-morrow, CHANGE OF BASE. 107 or within a short time, is a disaster, the responsibility cannot be thrown on my... | |
 | John W. Urban - United States - 1882 - 508 pages
...should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do with the splendid army I have the honor to command, and, if it is destroyed by overwhelming...the result of the action, which will probably occur to-morro«. or within a short time, is a disaster, the responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders... | |
 | Régis de Trobriand - United States - 1888 - 816 pages
...fortunes. But, if the result of the action, which will probably take place to-morrow or very shortly after, is a disaster, the responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders. It must rest where it belongs." And he finished by returning to his fixed idea: "I feel that it is useless... | |
 | William Allan - History - 1892 - 582 pages
...position and repulse any attack. ... I will do all that a general can do with the splendid army I have the honor to command, and if it is destroyed by overwhelming...of the action, which will probably occur to-morrow, ... is a disaster, the responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders; it must rest where it belongs."... | |
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I will do all that a general can do with the splendid army I have the honor to command, and, if it is destroyed by overwhelming numbers, can at least die with it and share its fate. But if the result of the action which will probably occur to-morrow,... 
