 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 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 the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN.... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 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...when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I thought it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 564 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 the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. Lincoln.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 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 the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. TO MRS. LINCOLN August 8, 1863... | |
 | James Irvin Robertson (Jr.) - United States - 1913 - 328 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 the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. On the 1st of August, * when... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...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 the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...he understood the situation as well as Grant, the President's message read: "When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought...join General Banks; and when you turned northward Kast of the Big Black, I feared you had made a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgement... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 pages
...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 the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...done the country. . . . When you got below Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you would go down the river and join General Banks, and when...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. unvexed to the sea."... | |
 | Peter Cozzens - History - 1996 - 550 pages
...across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought...join General Banks; and when you turned northward west of the Big Black, I feared you had made a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment... | |
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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... 
