 | 1865 - 278 pages
...better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong. " Yours, very truly, "A. LINCOLN."... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...knew better than I, that the Vazoo Pasa expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. A. LIMMLN." While these events... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 pages
...Cannon, then of Gen. Wool's staff. f have done the country. I write to say a word further. * * * When you took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." How gently he assuaged the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. The... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 148 pages
...knew better than I that the Tazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours truly, "A. LINCOLN. " MAJOK-G'BNEBAI,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. " Yours, truly, "A. LINCOLN."... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought yon should go down the river and join General Banks, and...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make tho personal acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. These... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...succeed. When yon got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought yon should gn down the river and join General Banks, and when you...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make tho personal acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. These... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should gu dowu the river and join General Banks, and when you turned...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LrxcoLir. These... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought...down the river and join General Banks, and when you tnrned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal... | |
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When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment... 
