 | Benson John Lossing - North America - 1877 - 764 pages
...troops. The President urged him to act. "The country will note — it is now noting," Mr. Lincoln said, "that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." The Presi dent expressed the kindest feelings toward the general, and closed his letter with the remark,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1878 - 722 pages
...troops. The President urged him to act. " The country will note — it is now noting," Mr. Lincoln said, "that -the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." The President expressed the kindest feelings toward the general, and closed his letter with the remark,... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 632 pages
...approbation of the authorities, judging from certain expressions of President Lincoln, to this effect : " The country will not fail to note, is now noting,...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." On the 1st of May the President telegraphs : " Your call for Parrott guns from Washington alarms me,... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 614 pages
...approbation of the authorities, judging from certain expressions of President Lincoln, to this effect : " The country will not fail to note, is now noting,...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." On the 1st of May the President telegraphs : " Tour call for Parrott guns from Washington alarms me,... | |
 | United States. War Dept - Confederate States of America - 1884 - 1192 pages
...was oiily shifting and not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy and the same or equal intrenchments at either place. The country...not fail to note, is now noting, that the present besitatioD to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Mauassas repeated. I bee to assure... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 1194 pages
...surmounting the difficulty ; that we would find the tame enemy and the same or equal intrenchmcnts at either place. The country will not fail to note...now noting) that the present hesitation to move upon the intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1885 - 908 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 noting now — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas... | |
 | Willis C. Humphrey - United States - 1886 - 720 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...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... | |
 | Religion - 1887 - 618 pages
...not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy and the same or equal intrenchmente at either place. The country will not fail to note,...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... | |
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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... 
