 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...the result ; he must have more troops. "If I save this army now," said he to the Secretary of War, "I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any persons in Washington ; you have done your best to sacrifice this army." Was ever such petulance, such... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...Government must not, and can not, hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night — I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, tha game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...every halt; and he never, in a single instance, telegraphed to President Lincoln as another had done, " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington: you have done your best to sacrifice this army.'' * Gen. Grant determined to... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - 1872 - 404 pages
...every halt; and he never, in a single instance, telegraphed to President Lincoln as another had done, " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington: you have done your best to sacrifice this army" * Gen. Grant determined to force... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1880 - 664 pages
...must not hold him responsible for the result, he said: " I feel too earnestly to-night I have aeon too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise...If I save this army now I tell you plainly that I own no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington. You havo done your best to sacrifice this... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - United States - 1876 - 830 pages
...addressed to Mr. Stanton on the 2Stli of June, twenty minutes after midnight, closed with these words: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any oilier person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." This phrase was suppressed... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - United States - 1876 - 826 pages
...addressed to Mr. Stanton on the 28th of June, twenty minutes after midnight, closed with these words: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. Yon have done your best to sacrifice this army." This phrase was suppressed at... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1876 - 1086 pages
...Gaines' Mill McClellan wrote to the Secretary of War a letter closing in the following singular terms : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to aoj other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The incompetency... | |
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I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. 
