 I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.  Southern History of the War - Page 432by Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...21st of December. Sherman himself was absent, but two days later he returned, and telegraphed to Mr. Lincoln, "I beg to present you. as a Christmas gift,...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Once more the North rekindled its bonfires. In this steady-marching success of Confederate disasters,... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...telegraph transmitted to the President this laconic message: — , Deccntter 22, ISM. His Excellency President LINCOLN: I beg to present you, as a Christmas...and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. WT SIIEP.IIAN, Major-General. A few days later, the friends of General Sherman, in Colnmbus, Ohio,... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...day the wires of the telegraph transmitted, to the President this laconic message:— His Excellency President LINCOLN: I beg to present you, as a Christmas...and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. WT SUEBMAN, Major-General. A few days later, the friends of General Sherman, in Columbus, Ohio, called... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 868 pages
...President; announced this crowning success of the campaign : SAVAXXAII, OA.. December 2i Hit Excellency President Lincoln : I beg to present you as a Christmas...heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twentyflvo thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major-General. The following from Gen. Foster gives... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Fiction - 1869 - 536 pages
...Daniel " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns, and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." In January, Wilmington fell. Toward the end of the same month, Johu M. Daniel was a second time seized... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - United States - 1872 - 890 pages
...men killed, — I and two hundred and forty-five wounded. He telegraphed to the President : " I bog to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah,...hundred and fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition, aiid also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." During his inarch several movements had been... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Northwest, Old - 1875 - 958 pages
...follow General Sherman in his heroic march to Savannah. On the 32d of December, 1865, he telegraphed President Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." On the 15th of January he recommenced his march through South Carolina to Raleigh, in North Carolina.... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Indians of North America - 1875 - 394 pages
...and the Union Army entered it ; and General Sherman wrote to President Lincoln, " I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with...fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition, and also twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." He had lost, in the march, only sixtythree killed, and two hundred... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 428 pages
...1864. To His Excellency President LINCOLN, Washington, DC : I beg to present yon as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major- General. This message actually reached... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...John's Church.1 On the 26th he sent a dispatch to President Lincoln, saying : " I beg to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." The President rePIied. thanking Sherman for his gift, and giving to him all the honor. The Government,... | |
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