 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 250 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 1 was wrong.''1 Several gentlemen were near... | |
 | Julian K. Larke - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 538 pages
...knew better than 1, 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 1 was wrung* Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN.... | |
 | John Lindsay Swift - 1880 - 218 pages
...the only general who was always successful." Lincoln wrote him, " When you turned northward, east of Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." Amid all the congratulations... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 760 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 was almost equally generous... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 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. THERE can be, I think, but one... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 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...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I wish, now, to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Every man who... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 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 you should go down theriver and join General Banks, and when you turned northward,, east of the Big Black, I feared it... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 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 you should go below and down the river and join General Banks ; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black,... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1885 - 472 pages
...bet ter 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.... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 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." The grade of major-general in... | |
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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... 
