 | Henry Alexander White - United States - 1897 - 648 pages
...address, July 14, to reanimate the brigades whom Jackson had left demoralised in the valley: " 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 defence. ... I desire you to dismiss from... | |
 | John Codman Ropes - United States - 1898 - 500 pages
...which we have any record in military history.* " Let us," said he, " 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... | |
 | George Francis Robert Henderson - Generals - 1898 - 708 pages
...the expense of McClellan and of McClellan's army. 'I have come to you,' he said to his soldiers, ' from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. . . . I presume that I have been... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 870 pages
...troops that he had most at heart. " I have come to you from the West, " he proclaimed on the 14th, "where we have always seen the backs of our enemies...the adversary, and to beat him when he was found; whose policy has been attack and not defence." "I presume I have been called here to pursue the same... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 686 pages
...peninsula troops that he had most at heart. "I have come to you from the West," he proclaimed on the 14th, "where we have always seen the backs of our enemies...the adversary, and to beat him when he was found; whose policy has been attack and not defence." "I presume I have been called here to pursue the same... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 764 pages
...i4thof July issued a very remarkable address, in which he said, among other things : I have come to join you from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack, not defense. ... I desire you to dismiss from your... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 390 pages
...capture Richmond." Under date of the i4th of July, General Pope in an address to his army said: "I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies ; I presume that I have been called here to pursue the same system." Pope had under his command 77,779... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - United States - 1902 - 444 pages
...command. In this address, together with much like stuff, Pope said : "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 defense Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain... | |
 | George Francis Robert Henderson - Confederate States of America - 1904 - 592 pages
...McClellan's army. 'I have come to you,' he said to his soldiers, ' from the West, where we have always Been the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. . . . I presume that I have been... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - History - 1906 - 576 pages
...objectionable utterance was the Address to the Army, dated July 14, 1862. In this be said : — " 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 uot defence. In but one instance has the enemy been able to place... | |
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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. 
