| James Kendall Hosmer - United States - 1913 - 410 pages
...brought the army to a pass so critical, he breaks out: "The Government has not sustained this army. 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." * Still more unbecoming was... | |
| United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1194 pages
...Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell yon plainly that I owe no thanks to yon or to any other persons in Washington. Yon have done your beet... | |
| Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - Study Aids - 1990 - 650 pages
...force is too small.... The government must not and cannot hold me responsible for this result.... I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...the government has not sustained this army.. . . If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington.... | |
| Byron Farwell - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 582 pages
...if it is destroyed by overwhelming numbers at least die with it and share its fate." He closed with "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."4 Gone now was any thought of... | |
| David Homer Bates - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 460 pages
...STANTON, Secretary of War: I now know the full history of the day ... I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks^to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.... | |
| David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...possibility of capitulation. "If I save this Army now," McClellan concluded a message to Stanton on June 28, "I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this army." These final sentences... | |
| Michael McHugh - Generals - 1998 - 228 pages
...earnestly tonight — / have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Govt has not sustained this Army. If you do not do so now...I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this Army. Geo. B. McClellan... | |
| Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...earnestly tonight — I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Govt has not sustained this Army, If you do not do so now...I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this Army.68 As a matter of... | |
| Alan T. Nolan - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 332 pages
...understandings, to be sure, but he was also the man who, when defeated, could write to the Secretary of War: "I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...the government has not sustained this army. ... If I save this army now, I tell you plainly I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington.... | |
| Gary W. Gallagher - History - 2000 - 304 pages
...Govt must not and cannot hold me responsible for defeat." He concluded with these incredible words: "If I save this army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your g Mi('.lt'llun\ ile1 iMo,i to re treat to thr... | |
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