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" I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. "
In Memoriam, Edwin McMasters Stanton, His Life and Work: With Account of ... - Page 130
by Joseph Beatty Doyle - 1911 - 405 pages
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1890 - 800 pages
...operations, ami in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whosa business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been...
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History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the ...

William A. Spicer - United States - 1892 - 432 pages
...are nearly completed, and I am about io join you in the field. Let us understand each other. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen...seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found; whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one instance has the enemy been able to place...
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The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862

William Allan - United States - 1892 - 580 pages
...operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when found, whose policy has been attack, not defense. In but one instance has the enemy been...
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The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862

William Allan - United States - 1892 - 886 pages
...promptly and to tho purpose. I have come to yor. from the West, where we have always seen the hacks of our enemies, — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and heat him when found, whose poliey has been attack, not defense. In but one instance has the enemy been...
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abraham lincoln

charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those...
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Abraham Lincoln

Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those...
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Three Years in the Army: The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts ...

Charles E. Davis - United States - 1893 - 570 pages
...are nearly completed, and I am about to join you in the field. Let us understand each other. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen...the adversary, and to beat him when he was found; whose policy has been attack, and not defence. In but one instance has the enemy been able to place...
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Abraham Lincoln

Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those...
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Abraham Lincoln

Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those...
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Sketches of War History, 1861-1865: Papers Read Before the Ohio ..., Volume 4

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Ohio Commandery - United States - 1896 - 488 pages
...inspiriting his own little force and impressing the enemy, he published an order, in which he said, " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen...of our enemies — from an army whose business it was to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense."...
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