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" Not expecting to see you again before the spring campaign opens, I wish to express in this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know. "
The Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from His Boyhood to the ... - Page 434
by Phineas Camp Headley - 1866 - 720 pages
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The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political ..., Volume 2

James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...words: "I wish to express in this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans...self-reliant, and pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. . . . And now with a brave army and a just cause, may God sustain...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 8

John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 638 pages
...satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plan I neither know nor seek to know. You are vigilant and self-reliant ; and, pleased with CHAP. xiv. this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very anxious...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 8

John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 576 pages
...satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plan I neither know nor seek to know. You are vigilant and self-reliant ; and, pleased with CHAP. xiv. this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very anxious...
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Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion: Addresses Delivered ...

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. New York Commandery - United States - 1897 - 368 pages
...just before Grant's movement in the Wilderness campaign, Lincoln said : " The particulars of your plan I neither know nor seek to know. You are vigilant and self-reliant, and, pleased with these, I wish not to intrude any constraint or restraint upon you." Lincoln not only meant what he...
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 2

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...opens, I wish to express in this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans...and; pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of our...
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volume 64

Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...opens, I wish to express in this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans...and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints nor restraints upon you. While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of...
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...opens, I wish to express in this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans...and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints nor restraints upon you. While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of...
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Complete Works, Volume 10

Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 410 pages
...opens, I wish to express in this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. The particulars of your plans...and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of our...
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The Presidents of the United States 1789-1894

James Grant Wilson - Presidents - 1894 - 684 pages
...that moment to exercise any active influence on its movements. He wrote, on 30 April, to Gen. Grant: "The particulars of your plans I neither know nor...and, pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. ... If there is anything wanting which is in my power to give,...
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Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery

Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...Lincoln, on his part, sent Grant into the field with these words : " You are vigilant and self-reliant. Pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any restraints or constraints upon you. If there be any thing in my power to give, do not fail to let me know. And now, with a brave army and...
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