 | England - 1864 - 808 pages
..." Once more," he says, " let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. . . . The country will not fail to note — is now noting — that the present hesitation to advance upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." McClellan, thus goaded, displayed... | |
 | George Brinton MACCLELLAN (General.) - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 676 pages
...was only shifting and not surmounting a difficulty; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at either place. The country will not fail to note—is now noting—that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy, is but the story... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...•was only shifting, and not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at either place. The country...repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written to you or spoken to you hi greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...was only shifting, and not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at either place. The country...enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assnre yon that I have never written yon or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...only shifting, and not surmounting a. difficulty ; that we would rind the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at either place. The country...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. 1 beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you IB greater kindness of feeling than... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...was only shifting, and not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would lind the samo enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at either place. The country...upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repealed. ] beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...intrenchments, at either place. The conntry will not fail to note, is now noting, that the presout hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but...beg to assure you that I have never written you or epoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain 18 yon,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 852 pages
...only shifting, and not surmounting a difficulty ; that we should find the same enemy, and the same, or equal intrenchments at either place. The country will not fail to note — is noting now — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched position is but the story of... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...was only shifting BTid not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy nnd the same or equal intrenchments at either place. The country will not fail to note — is noting now — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Managuas... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...same or equal iutrenehments at either place. The country will not fail to note — is noting now. — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but tlio story of Manassas repeated. "I lx?p to assure you that I have never written or spoken to you in... | |
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I am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or ne'ar Manassas, was only shifting, and not surmounting, a difficulty; that we would find the... 
