 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
 | Marie Louise Herdman - United States - 1916 - 556 pages
...the night of the 20th, and the following day Sherman entered in triumph. He promptly sent a telegram to President Lincoln : "I beg to present you, as a...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." After resting his men for a month, Sherman led his army northward through the Carolines to join Grant... | |
 | William Wood - Literary Criticism - 1921 - 474 pages
...Christmas Eve. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 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. In the meantime Hood's... | |
 | William Charles Henry Wood - United States - 1921 - 480 pages
...Christmas Eve. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 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. In the meantime Hood's... | |
 | Howard M. Hensel - United States - 1989 - 344 pages
...Confederates abandoned Savannah. Sherman quickly occupied the city and telegraphed the President, " 'I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.' " For the next few weeks, Sherman rested and reequipped his army before commencing his last campaign... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - History - 1990 - 1086 pages
...1864. To His Excellency President LINCOLN, Washington, D. C: I beg to present you as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major-General. This message actually reached... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...Washington by the twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth. Sherman, taking Browne's advice, wrote Lincoln the message: I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton. This note would be republished countless times as an... | |
 | Charles Mattocks - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 492 pages
...39. Sherman's troops entered Savannah on December 21, 1864. On December 22 General Sherman had wired 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" (Memoirs, 711). President Lincoln had mirrored the... | |
 | Sallie A. Brock - History - 1996 - 404 pages
...wrote : "I beg to present you as a Chr'istmns gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." The fall of Savannah greatly increased the despondency in the Confederacy. Calculations of failure... | |
 | F. N. Boney - History - 1997 - 134 pages
...Lincoln that was rushed by boat to Fort Monroe on the Virginia coast and then telegraphed to Washington: "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." Later he compiled a more detailed summary of the... | |
 | Andrew Frank - History - 1999 - 148 pages
...Union rule. Sherman graciously sent word to President Lincoln of his victory. "I beg to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with...hundred and fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." In February, Sherman and his men left Savannah and... | |
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