 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
 | Loomis T. Palmer - Generals - 1885 - 788 pages
...telegram from General Sherman: " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with a hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition,...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.'' To this President Lincoln immediately replied: " MY DEAR GENERAL SHERMAN, — Many, many thanks for... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - Voyages and travels - 1885 - 374 pages
...telegram from General Sherman: " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with a hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition,...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." To this President Lincoln immediately replied: " MY DEAR GENERAL SHERMAN, — Many, many thanks for... | |
 | Loomis T. Palmer - Generals - 1885 - 740 pages
...telegram from General Sherman: " l beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with a hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition,...and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton " To this President Lincoln immediately replied: •' MY DEAR GENERAL SHERMAN, — Many, many thanks... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - United States - 1888 - 580 pages
...Geary's division of the Twentieth Corps marched in. The next day 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." Sherman's entire loss in the march had been seven... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 790 pages
...telegram from General Sherman : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with a hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition,...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." To this President Lincoln immediately replied: ing that you were the better judge, and remembering... | |
 | Lew Wallace - Biography - 1889 - 724 pages
...city soon fell, and on December 23 Sherman telegraphed to President Lincoln : " I beg to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." But his work was not done. He set about the reorganization of civil affairs at Savannah, and then turned... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1890 - 800 pages
...fell into the hands of the enemy. Slierman announced his success in a characteristic despatch. lie wrote to President Lincoln : " I beg to present you,...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." And thus ended the story of the march to the sea. In his official report of his achievements, Gen. Sherman... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1890 - 548 pages
...into the city. It was a brief but a felicitous despatch which General Sherman sent Dec. 23, 1864. r to President Lincoln. " I beg to present you as a...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." There was joy in the White House, Washington, on... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1890 - 536 pages
...Corps marched into the city. It was ( a brief but a felicitous despatch which General Sherman sent to President Lincoln. "I beg to present you as a Christmas...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." There was joy in the White House, Washington, on... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1890 - 536 pages
...a brief but a felicitous despatch which General Sherman sent Dec. 23, 1864. r to President Lmcoln. "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." There was joy in the White House, Washington, on... | |
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