 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
 | Leon Dande - Slavery - 1877 - 864 pages
...for the President. You know Sherman said in his dispatch to Abraham Lincoln, ' I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with...and also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton.' It was extremely humiliating to the Georgians, no doubt ; but Afra, darling, the morning is passing... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - America - 1877 - 396 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... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - United States - 1879 - 380 pages
...he said : " I beg to present you 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." Halleck, rejoicing in Sherman's success, pronounced his march as " the greatest one of this great war."... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 624 pages
...Charleston, and the next morning the Union troops took possession. Sherman wrote to the President: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." This message reached the President on Christmas eve,... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 626 pages
...Charleston, and the next morning the Union troops took possession. Sherman wrote to the President: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." This message reached the President on Christmas eve,... | |
 | William Rattle Plum - Military telegraph - 1882 - 412 pages
...following : " SAVANNAH, GA., December 22, 1864 To HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT LINCOLN, Washington, DC : I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition ; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major General " This message actually... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1883 - 412 pages
...he said : " I beg to present you 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." Halleck, rejoicing in Sherman's success, pronounced his march as " the greatest one of this great war."... | |
 | Clara Emma Cheney - United States - 1884 - 576 pages
...Immediately after the surrender, he wrote to the President, " I beg to present you as a Christmas present the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." i From a manuscript book by General William E. Strong.... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Generals - 1885 - 752 pages
...artillery and much valuable property. The country was electrified with his telegram to the President: "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Sherman had at last reached the sea, adding lustre to his name, and furnishing for military history... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 936 pages
...artillery and much valuable property. The country was electrified with his telegram to the President: "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Sherman had at last reached the sea, adding lustre to his name, and furnishing for military history... | |
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