 | Frederick Elizur Goodrich - 1886 - 400 pages
...proclamation to the troops : "The enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." He is also said to have declared in conversation : "The rebel army is now the legitimate property of... | |
 | James Barnet Fry - Military art and science - 1889 - 542 pages
...three days have determined that the enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground where certain destruction awaits him." It was not until Thursday night that Lee understood what was going on. Then, instead of ingloriously... | |
 | 1890 - 508 pages
...three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind their defences and give us battle 'on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." On Friday morning General Hooker began the strata getic disposition of his force. It was formed in... | |
 | George Alfred Henty - United States - 1890 - 454 pages
...general order of congratulation to his troops, saying that "the enemy must now ingloriously fly or give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." Jackson then suggested that he should work right round the Wilderness in front of the enemy's position,... | |
 | Susan Pendleton Lee - Lexington (Va.) - 1893 - 506 pages
...days have determined that the enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." His sanguine anticipations were soon to be signally blasted. General Lee was promptly informed of the... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1894 - 378 pages
...boastful general order declaring that " the enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." On the left, down the river, things had gone equally well. Sedgwick, on the 29th, crossed the Rappahannock... | |
 | Fitzhugh Lee - 1894 - 460 pages
...their operations, telling them that his enemy " must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." On May ist Hooker started for Fredericksburg. The four corps with him, less Gibbon's division of the... | |
 | Joseph T. Derry - Confederate States of America - 1895 - 454 pages
...the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." To some of his officers Hooker remarked : "The Confederate army is now the legitimate property of the... | |
 | United States - 1895 - 578 pages
...days have determined that our enemy must ¡ngloriously fly, or come out from behind their defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits them." The result that actually occurred angered the whole country. Hooker had declared that the army... | |
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It is with heartfelt satisfaction, that the Commanding General announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our... 
