 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Allen Rogers Benham - American letters - 1905 - 176 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1906 - 476 pages
...this way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. restraints or constraints upon you. While I am very...any great disaster or capture of our men in great number shall be avoided, I know that these points are less likely to escape your attention than they... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 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... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...him : " I wish to express . . . 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 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... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie Marquis - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 512 pages
...early in 1864, he appointed him general-in-chief. When he gave him the supreme command, he said : " You are vigilant and self-reliant, and pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraint or restraints upon you." This was the first time that Lincoln had been able to so completely... | |
 | David Homer Bates - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 450 pages
...letter to Grant April 30, 1864, at the opening of Grant's first campaign in the east, in which he said, "The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know." 310 were frequently allowed to interfere with what was the better judgment of military men, and it... | |
 | Emory Speer - United States - 1909 - 298 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... | |
 | Nicholas Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 432 pages
...about it to Lincoln that the latter, in a letter to Grant on the 30th of April, used this language : "The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know." And this same reticence was characteristic of Grant in the political campaign, so far as the general... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...way my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to this time, so far as I understand it. 1 5 The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek...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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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. 
