 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 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 in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 pages
...surmounting, a difficulty; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at cither place. The country will not fail to note — is now...repeated. " I beg to assure you that I have never written to you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purposa to sustain... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
...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...move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Mauassas repeated. "I beg to assure you that I have never written to you or spoken to you iu greater... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - History - 1866 - 910 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...present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy U but the story of Manassas repeated. I 'beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...surmounting a difficulty; that we would fiud the same enemy, and the same, or equal intrenchments at cither place. The country will not fail to note — is now...present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy, is bnt the story of Manas&is repeated. " I beg to assure yon, that I have never written you, or spoken... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 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... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...surmounting a difficulty — that we should find the same enemy and the same or equal intrcnchments at either place. The country will not fail to note—...' " I beg to assure you that I have never written to you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1134 pages
...infinite mortification of the President, who wrote, "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 Manassas repeated."* But the General's requisitions were all promptly filled ; an enormous siege-train, comprising one and... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...was 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 now noting—that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1880 - 664 pages
...surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at cither place. The country will not fail to note — is now...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." The President closed with an assurance that he never had a kinder feelinsr toward the O General than... | |
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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... 
