When you were about leaving Atlanta for the Atlantic coast, I was anxious, if not fearful ; but feeling that you were the better judge; and remembering that "nothing risked, nothing gained," I did not interfere. Now, the undertaking being a success, the... Report of the First Meeting - Page 129by Society of the Army of the Cumberland - 1904Full view - About this book
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...capture of Savannah. " When you were about to leave Atlanta for the Atlantic coast. I was anxioits, wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the that ' nothing risked, nothing gained,1 I did not interfere. Now, the undertaking being a success,... | |
| Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...coast, I was anxious, if not fearful ; but feeling you were the better judge, and remembering that ' nothing risked, nothing gained,' I did not interfere....being a success, the honor is all yours, for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce. And taking the work of General Thomas into the count, as... | |
| Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 566 pages
...coast, I was anxious, if not fearful ; but feeling you were the better judge, and remembering that 'nothing risked nothing gained,' I did not interfere....being a success, the honor is all yours, for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce. And taking the work .of General Thomas into the count, as... | |
| Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 572 pages
...coast, I was anxious, if not fearful; but feeling you were the better judge, and remembering that ' nothing risked nothing gained,' I did not interfere....being a success, the honor is all yours, for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce. And taking the work of General Thomas into the count, as... | |
| Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - Bookbinding - 1865 - 568 pages
...leave Atlanta for the Atlantic," wrote Mr. Lincoln to General Sherman, " I was anxious, if not fearful. Now, the undertaking being a success, the honor is all yours, for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce." " Not only, he continued, " does it afford the obvious... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...coast, I was anxious, if not fearful ; but, feeling that you were the better judge, and remembering that 'nothing risked, nothing gained,' I did not interfere....a success, the honor is all yours ; for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce. And, taking the work of Gen. Thomas into the account, as... | |
| Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1866 - 728 pages
...coast, I was anxious, if not fearful; but feeling you were the better judge, and remembering that ' nothing risked, nothing gained,' I did not interfere....being a success, the honor is all yours, for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce. And taking the work of General Thomas into the count, as... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...but, feeling that you were the better judge, and remembering that 4 nothing risked, nothing gained, 1 I did not interfere. Now, the undertaking being a success, the honor is all yours; for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce. And, taking the work of Gen. Thomas into the account, as... | |
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