 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 762 pages
...— that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements alone. And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable...help this. You will do me the justice to remember that 1 always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 764 pages
...— that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements alone. And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable...help this. You will do me the justice to remember that I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near... | |
 | James Havelock Campbell - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 486 pages
...on you; that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you by reinforcements alone. And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable...help this. You will do me the justice to remember that I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field instead of fighting at or near... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - History - 1917 - 540 pages
...better come and do it himself." 2 Three days later the President wrote to him in great kindness : " Once more let me tell you it is indispensable to you...that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this." 3 Suggestion and entreaty were of no avail. "Glorious news comes borne on every wind but the South... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - History - 1917 - 532 pages
...had better come and do it himself." 2 Three days later the President wrote to him in great kindness : "Once more let me tell you it is indispensable to...that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this." 3 Suggestion and entreaty were of no avail. "Glorious news comes borne on every wind but the South... | |
 | Richard N. Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1958 - 326 pages
...rebels to bring final victory. From first to last, Lincoln urged his generals on — to fight, to win. "And, once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow," he told the procrastinating McClellan after a winter of delay. "And now, beware of rashness," he admonished... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...that is, he will gain faster, by fortifications and re-inforcements, than you can by reinforcements alone. And, once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. / am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted, that going down... | |
 | Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - History - 1994 - 278 pages
...one in front of Yorktown, and sought to bring enlightenment to the general on the larger situation. "And, once more let me tell you, it is indispensable...that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. ... I beg to assure you that I have never written you, or spoken to you, in greater kindness of feeling... | |
 | George Walsh - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 502 pages
...have reached you. How can the discrepancy be accounted for?" Push forward, Lincoln told McClellan. "Once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. / am powerless to help this."29 Lincoln's sense of urgency was understandable. "Moving this army from... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 804 pages
...discrepancy of 23,000 be accounted for?" He tried gently to prod McClellan into moving forward and fighting. "Once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. 1 am powerless to help this." McClellan wrote his wife: "I have raised an awful row about McDowell's... | |
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And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. / am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I' always insisted that going down the Bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas,... 
