 GENERAL : — I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this, now, as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...  Life of U.S. Grant - Page 89by Benjamin Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - 1885 - 736 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 148 pages
...you have done the country. I write to say a word further. When you reached the vicinity of Vicksbnrg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march...general hope that you knew better than I that the Tazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 884 pages
...grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you hare done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a generaf hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition und the like could succeed.... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...march the troops across the neck, run the batteries witli the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith except a general hope that you knew... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable sol-rice you have done the country. I wish to say л »ord farther. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...finally did— march the troops across the neck, run the halterios with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...finally did — march the troops across the neck, run tho batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never luiJ any faith, except a general... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...almost inestimable service you have done the country. I write to say a word furtlier. When you tirst reached the vicinity of Vicksburg. I thought you should...finally did — march the troops across the neck, mn the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and 1 never had any faith, except a general... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service yon have done the country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what yon finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. 1 write to say a won? further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what yon finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the butteries with the transports, and thus... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Civil war - 1866 - 688 pages
...MAJOR-GENERAL GRANT : " MY DEAR GENERAL : — I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable...the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thu6 go below, and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the... | |
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