 | Fitzhugh Lee - 1894 - 460 pages
...operations, telling them that his enemy " must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." On May ist Hooker started for Fredericksburg. The four corps with him, less Gibbon's division of the... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1894 - 378 pages
...order declaring that " the enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." On the left, down the river, things had gone equally well. Sedgwick, on the 29th, crossed the Rappahannock... | |
 | United States - 1895 - 578 pages
...to his army : " It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the general commanding announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must ¡ngloriously fly, or come out from behind their defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where... | |
 | Joseph T. Derry - Confederate States of America - 1895 - 454 pages
...delighted with the progress made up to this time that he issued an address to his troops, in which he said: "The operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain... | |
 | Capers Dickson - United States - 1896 - 292 pages
...and therein said : "It is with heartfelt satisfaction the commanding general announces to the army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Massachusetts - 1896 - 678 pages
...an official order (April 30), " The enemy must cither ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him."4 But the superior generalship of Lee and the westerly flank movement under Jackson reversed the... | |
 | Richard Meade Bache - United States - 1897 - 698 pages
...able to write, in a preliminary order, " The enemy must either ignominiously fly, or come out from his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him," his arrogance had departed, and he awaited instead of seeking the arbitrament of battle. What a fall... | |
 | Asa W. Bartlett - History - 1897 - 914 pages
...April 30, 1863. It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the commanding general announces to the army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground where... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...Federal Capital, Hooker's message: " The enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." Contrast the two, Jackson's modest, confident, hopeful, relying on his cause and his God. Hooker's... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...Federal Capital, Hooker's message: " The enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." Contrast the two, Jackson's modest, confident, hopeful, relying on his cause and his God. Hooker's... | |
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It is with heartfelt satisfaction, that the Commanding General announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our... 
