 | Universities and colleges - 1912 - 620 pages
...in honorable defeat. So absolute was his authority, that on April 30, 1864, Mr. Lincoln wrote him : "The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know. I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you." Well had it been, for the hopes of the... | |
 | Periodicals - 1895 - 630 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... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1895 - 348 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 [I put no] restraints or constraints upon you. While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1897 - 456 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 any great disaster or the capture of our... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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...constraints upon you. While I am very anxious that any great disNOTE. — General Grant was made commander of the district of West Tennessee March, 1862; of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 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... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 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... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 870 pages
...present date, and bidding him a loving farewell. "The particulars of your plan," he wrote unreservedly, "I neither know nor seek to know. You are vigilant...self-reliant; and pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. If there is anything wanting which is within my power to give,... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 686 pages
...present date, and bidding him a loving farewell. "The particulars of your plan," he wrote unreservedly, "I neither know nor seek to know. You are vigilant...self-reliant; and pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. If there is anything wanting which is within my power to give,... | |
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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. 
