 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...thence march to York River. These the questions written out by the President : " If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions I shall gladly yield my plan to yours : "First. — Does not your plan involve a greatly larger expenditure of time and money than mine ?... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...the Potomac — yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River ; mine...the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours. First. Does... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...the Potomac— yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River; mine to...the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours. first. Does... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...Potomac — yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River ; mine...the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours. First. Does... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 394 pages
...Potomac — yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River; mine to...the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours. First. Does... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...River ; mine to move directly to a point on the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours. First. Does not your plan involve a greatly larger expenditure of time and money than minet Second.... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 514 pages
...Potomac — Yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Eappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River. — Mine...the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours. 1st. Does... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 pages
...Potomac — yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River ; mine...the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours. First. Does... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 528 pages
...the Rappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York Kiver. — Mine to move directly to a point on the railroad southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following questions, I shall gladly yield my plan to yours. 1st. Does... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...the Potomac — yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River; mine to move directly to the point on the railroads southwest of Manassas. If you will give me satisfactory answers to the following... | |
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My dear Sir : — You and I have distinct and different plans for a movement of the Army of the Potomac — yours to be down the Chesapeake, up the Rappahannock to Urbana, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River; mine to move... 
