 | Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1876 - 1086 pages
...Gaines' Mill McClellan wrote to the Secretary of War a letter closing in the following singular terms : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to aoj other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The incompetency... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - United States - 1876 - 826 pages
...Mr. Stanton on the 28th of June, twenty minutes after midnight, closed with these words : " If I nave this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. Yov, have done your best to sacrifice this army." This phrase was suppressed... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 614 pages
...need blush for the Army of the Potomac. I have lost this battle because my force was too small. .... If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to destroy this army." The first remark that one... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 632 pages
...need blush for the Army of the Potomac. I have lost this battle because my force was too small. .... If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to destroy this army." The first remark that one... | |
 | United States. War Dept - Confederate States of America - 1884 - 1192 pages
...otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now the game ia lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. Ton have done your best to sacrifice this army. GEO. B. McCLELLAN. Hon.... | |
 | William Rattle Plum - Military telegraph - 1882 - 408 pages
...hundred and sixty thousand effective troops, but not at any one time. June 28, he telegraphed Stanton : "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That was while nine... | |
 | Reunion Society of Vermont Officers - Local history - 1906 - 412 pages
...work long enough to wring the heart of President Lincoln by sending him a despatch in which he said : "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Then came the retreat... | |
 | M. Quad - United States - 1885 - 582 pages
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now the game is lost. If I save this army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other person in Washington I You have done your best to sacrifice thisarmy! Such a dispatch could... | |
 | Religion - 1887 - 618 pages
...naturally regarded as a great achievement, declaring to Stanton while it was being accomplished, " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington." But how could he dare to claim credit for it now ? If one can hardly... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1887 - 506 pages
...moved, or who could not be taken away. General McClellan sent a last despatch to Secretary Stanton : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." It was regarded as very... | |
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If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. 
