 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march...and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except in a general hope, that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like would succeed.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except in a general hope, that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like would succeed. When you got below and took Fort Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...done the country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march...faith, except a general hope that you knew better than 1, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson,... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1892 - 630 pages
...have done the country. I wish to say a further word. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march...the batteries with the transports and thus go below. * * * * When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and the vicinity, I thought you should... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...done the country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did : march...batteries with the transports, and thus go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you knew better than I that the Yazoo Pass expedition... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...done the country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did : march...batteries with the transports, and thus go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you knew better than I that the Ya/.oo Pass expedition... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 pages
...you have done the country. "I wish to say a word further. When you reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did, —...and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except in a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like would succeed.... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...done the country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg. I thought you should do what you finally did : march...batteries with the transports, and thus go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you knew better than I that the Ynzoo Pass expedition... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...done the country. I write to say a word further. When you first reached ihe vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did : march...batteries with the transports, and thus go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you knew better than I that the Yazoo Pass expedition... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 394 pages
...neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except in a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like would succeed. "When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should... | |
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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... 
