 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 574 pages
...Pennsylvania, under General McCall, with which, General McClellan had just telegraphed the government : — I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and...moment McCall reaches here, and the ground will admit of the passage of artillery.— [" Century," Vol. II, p. 134. The whole battle was a series of desperate... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 572 pages
...Pennsylvania, under General McCall, with which, General McClellan had just telegraphed the government: — I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and take Richmond the moment McCnll reaches here, and the ground will admit of the passage of artillery.— ["Century," Vol. II,... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - United States - 1898 - 332 pages
...Republic dawned. It was the 9th of June, 1862. Two days before, Gen. McClellen had written to Washington: "I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and...and the ground will admit the passage of artillery." Jackson was to "have his say " in that. At nightfall on the 8th this was the situation of affairs.... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...are promptly granted him. On the 8th, he says : " I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward to take Richmond the moment McCall reaches here, and the ground will admit the passage of artillery." On the same day, McDowell .•bforms him : " For the third time I am ordered to join you, and this... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...there was a continual dispatch of new regiments to that quarter. On the 7th the General telegraphed: "I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and...the moment McCall reaches here and the ground will permit the passage of artillery." But three days later roads and fields were "literally impassable... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - United States - 1903 - 566 pages
...dispatched to him, who says in a note to the President, " I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward to take Richmond the moment McCall reaches here and the ground will admit the passage of artillery." g. The plan adopted by McClellan to reach Richmond was by the peninsula formed by the York and James... | |
 | Samuel Livingston French - History - 1906 - 388 pages
...for artillery, or even Cavalry. ... I am glad to learn that you are pressing forward re-enforcements so vigorously. I shall be in perfect readiness to...and the ground will admit the passage of artillery. . . ." Thus, while the waters of the dangerous Chickahominy, and the unfavorable conditions of the... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - History - 1906 - 576 pages
...General this acknowledgment : — O " I am glad to learn that you are pressing forward reinforcements so vigorously. I shall be in perfect readiness to...and the ground will admit the passage of artillery." '» McCall' s 10,000 men duly arrived. McClellan's promises, however, as in the case of Franklin, went... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 pages
...feel sufficiently strong for your final movement when McCall reaches you." The reply came promptly : " I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and...and the ground will admit the passage of artillery." 2 June 12 and 13 McCall's division joined him : this with the troops from Baltimore, Washington, and... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - United States - 1906 - 368 pages
...7th he telegraphed: "I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward to take Richmond the moment that McCall reaches here and the ground will admit the passage of artillery." On June 11th he reported: "McCall's troops have commenced arriving at the White House. . . . Weather... | |
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I am glad to learn that you are pressing forward reinforcements so vigorously. " I shall be in perfect readiness to- move forward and take Richmond the moment McCall reaches here and the ground will admit the passage of artillery. 
