 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1134 pages
...knew 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." Rarely as such words have reached... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...knew 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 tJiat you were right and I wag wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN.... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and tho 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 tho personal acknowledgment that you were riyht and I wen wrong. " Yours very truly, A. LISCOLN."... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 386 pages
...knew 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." Halleck also was liberal in his... | |
 | Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 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 mnke a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. CHAPTER... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...knew 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."... | |
 | Henry Champion Deming - Electronic books - 1868 - 562 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...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I triumphs; he had treated him during the Corinth campaign as a mere successful blunderer, and had such... | |
 | James Sanks Brisbin - Campaign literature, 1868 - 1868 - 424 pages
...thousand men. The President wrote Grant: " When you got below and took Port Gibson and Grand Gulf, I thought you should go down the river and join General...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake." Halleck wrote : " If possible, the forces of yourself and Banks should be united between Vicksburg... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...knew 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...General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of tho Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...took Port Gibson, Great Gulf, and the vicinity, I thought you should go down the river, and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now 4ish to make a personal acknowledgment that you was right, and It was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN.... | |
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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... 
