 | Capers Dickson - United States - 1896 - 292 pages
...three days have determined that our 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." The "enemy" did not "ingloriously fly," but had "come out from behind his defenses" and given the Federals... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Massachusetts - 1896 - 678 pages
...official order (April 30), " The enemy must cither ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him."4 But the superior generalship of Lee and the westerly flank movement under Jackson reversed the... | |
 | Asa W. Bartlett - History - 1897 - 914 pages
...three days have determined that our 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. The operations of the 5th, 1 1 th, and 1 2th Corps have been a succession of splendid achievements.... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...Capital, Hooker's message: " 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." Contrast the two, Jackson's modest, confident, hopeful, relying on his cause and his God. Hooker's... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...Capital, Hooker's message: " 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." Contrast the two, Jackson's modest, confident, hopeful, relying on his cause and his God. Hooker's... | |
 | 1897 - 632 pages
...days have determined that our enemy must cither ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." If Lee was " outgeneralled " in these preliminary movements, he gave no evidence of being in the least... | |
 | George Francis Robert Henderson - Generals - 1898 - 708 pages
...days have determined that our 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. The operations of 1 The troops carried eight days' supplies : three days' cooked rations with bread... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - United States - 1898 - 332 pages
...in a general order: "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!" There were those of his officers, doubtless, who listened thoughtfully, rather than with enthusiasm,... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 598 pages
...proud boast that "the enemy will now be compelled to ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." Yet Lee did not "ingloriously fly," but boldly advancing on Hooker, he sent Stonewall Jackson on his... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 624 pages
..." have determined that our 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." s That " with 1 O. R, vol. xxv. part ii. p. 243. But see Hooker's testimony, CW, 1865, vol. ip 113.... | |
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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... 
