 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 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... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 532 pages
...country will not fail to note, is noting now, that the present hesitation to move upon an entrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you,... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1904 - 534 pages
...country will not fail to note, is noting now, that the present hesitation to move upon an entrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you,... | |
 | Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 538 pages
...country will not fail to note, is noting now, that the present hesitation to move upon an entrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure yon that I have never written or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - History - 1905 - 598 pages
...strike a blow. * * * The country will not fail to note, is now noting, that the present hesitation is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, or with a fuller purpose to sustain you as far as,... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - History - 1905 - 584 pages
...strike a blow. * * * Once more let me tell you, it is indispensable that you should strike a blow. * * * The country will not fail to note, is now noting, that the present hesitation is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written to you in greater... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 392 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... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 456 pages
...is, he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements than you can by re-enforcements alone The country will not fail to note — is now noting...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." The weeks spent in the siege of Yorktown gave to the confederate commander the opportunity he wished.... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 462 pages
...is, he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements than you can by re-enforcements alone The country will not fail to note — is now noting...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." MOIST WEATHER AT THE FRONT. force to 53,000. Ten days before he came, McClellau telegraphed to Washington... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 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... | |
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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... 
