 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Civil war - 1866 - 688 pages
...you have done the country. I wish to say, further, when you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg I thought you should do what you finally did, march...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... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - History - 1866 - 910 pages
...done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Yicksburg, 1 thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the Deck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march...Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When yon got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...you have done the country. I wish to say further, when you first reached' the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did, —...general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo-pass expedition and the W-- 167 like could succeed. When you got better, and took Port Gibson,... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...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,...better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and tho like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...you have done the country. I wish to say further : when you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did, —...across the neck, run the batteries with the transports aud thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...thought you should do what yon finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries wij.h the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew hotter than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition mid the like could succeed. AVhen you got below and took... | |
 | Adam Badeau - Generals - 1868 - 792 pages
...have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run 400 MILITARY HISTORY OF the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 386 pages
...have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run 1 1 have said that the army of Pemberton numbered on the rolls, at the beginning of. the campaign,... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...country. I wish," he continued, "to say a word further. When you first reached tho vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across tho neck, run tho batteries with the transports, and thus go below, and I never had any faith, except... | |
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When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew... 
