 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...he had sent a dispatch to Stanton, complaining of defeat for the want of enough men, and concluding: "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." Before night (on the... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - United States - 1903 - 566 pages
...Gaincs' 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 any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The incompetency in leading... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - History - 1903 - 490 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 to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." From now on the story... | |
 | History - 1980 - 224 pages
...reserve, and shall be glad to cover my retreat and save the material and personnel of the army. ... 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." The manpower crisis would... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2003 - 947 pages
...lost this battle because my force was too small. . . . The Government has not sustained this army. ... 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." That McClellan escaped... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...this battle because my force was too small. . . . The Government has not sustained this army. . . . 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." That McClellan escaped... | |
 | Byron Farwell - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 582 pages
...if it is destroyed by overwhelming numbers at least die with it and share its fate." He closed with "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."4 Gone now was any thought... | |
 | Clifford Dowdey - History - 1993 - 402 pages
...lines which the Washington telegraph dispatcher deleted before delivering the message: "If I save the 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." In finally giving expression... | |
 | David Homer Bates - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 460 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 to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...possibility of capitulation. "If I save this Army now," McClellan concluded a message to Stanton on June 28, "I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this army." These final sentences... | |
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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. 
