| Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier - United States - 1911 - 370 pages
...the failure of the Eastern armies in their attempt upon Richmond. Pope himself proclaimed, "I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." So he set out for the front with "headquarters in the saddle." He could not know what the world later... | |
| James Irvin Robertson (Jr.) - United States - 1902 - 568 pages
...which we have any record in military history.8 " 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... | |
| Sir Frederick Maurice - 1925 - 354 pages
...than numbers. They had very unwisely 1 Pope began his address: ' I have come to you from the We»t, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies; from an army whose business has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found.' Not very flattering to the men of... | |
| Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...his troops calling for a spirited offensive attitude: "I have come to you from the West," he said, "where we have always seen the backs of our enemies;...seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found; whose policy has been attack and not defense." He later claimed that \\'ar Secretary Stanton had dictated... | |
| United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1052 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...seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense. In but one instance has the enemy been able to place... | |
| James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...to diminish his reputation for braggadocio in this singularly inept document. "I come to you out of the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies," he declared. "I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you . . . certain phrases [like] . . . 'lines... | |
| James M. McPherson - History - 2003 - 947 pages
...to diminish his reputation for braggadocio in this singularly inept document. "I come to you out of the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies," he declared. "I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you . . . certain phrases [like] . . . 'lines... | |
| Edward Porter Alexander - History - 1998 - 702 pages
...address to his officers and men dated 14 July 1862, which included the bombastic statement, "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." For both documents, see OR, 12, pt. 3:436-37, 473-74.... | |
| Eli N. Evans - Biographies - 1989 - 500 pages
...Virginia, immediately issued a ringing statement entitled "Headquarters in the Saddle." It announced: "I come to you from the West where we have always seen the backs of our enemies."1 That was the trouble with the Yankees, one of Jeb Stuart's old cavalry veterans responded,... | |
| Percival Green Lowe - History - 1973 - 388 pages
...Virginia. His order issued from "headquarters in the saddle" in which he also stated that he had come from the west "where we have always seen the backs of our enemies" was regarded as bombastic, and his only campaign led to the disaster of second Bull Run. He asked to... | |
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