 | John O'Hanlon - Irish - 1907 - 408 pages
...McClellan forwarded the following unwarranted and spiteful telegram to Mr Stanton, Secretary of War: — "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 doue your best to sacrifice this army." M'CI.KU.AS SUPERSEDED BY GESEHAL... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - United States - 1910 - 448 pages
...bitterness of spirit to the Secretary of War in Washington (Mr. Stanton) on the twentyeighth of June: "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington [obviously meaning Mr. Lincoln]. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." McClellan, with an... | |
 | Joseph Beatty Doyle - Edwin McMasters Stanton Statue (Steubenville, Ohio) - 1911 - 544 pages
...the Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly tonight I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...plainly that I owe, no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.]" Had the dispatch as printed... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - United States - 1911 - 394 pages
...order for the removal of Thomas * By cutting out of the message the last two sentences, reading: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." QUARTERS OF TELEGRAPHERS AND... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - United States - 1911 - 394 pages
...order for the removal of Thomas * By cutting out of the message the last two sentences, reading: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." [346] COPYRIGHT, I911, PATRIOT... | |
 | Middle Atlantic States - 1901 - 426 pages
...Seven Days' battles, and a week or more after McClellan, in a communication to Secretary Stanton said: "If I save this army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Any other President than Lincoln... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1911 - 728 pages
...large reinforcements, and send them at once. ... If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that 1 owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington [President Lincoln], You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Remarkable language for a commander... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1912 - 540 pages
...is, the Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly — I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost." The President, naturally seeking to vindicate the mistaken movements for the defense of Washington,... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1912 - 546 pages
...is, the Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly — I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...otherwise than that. The Government has not sustained this arniy. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. ° The President, naturally seeking to vindicate... | |
 | Thomas Dixon - 1913 - 620 pages
...Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly tonight. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army " He paused and his square jaws... | |
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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. 
