 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 566 pages
...was only shifting, not surmounting the difficulty. . . . The country will not fail to note — and it is now noting — that the present hesitation to move...the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you I have never written ... in greater kindness, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as in... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...McClellan to "strike a blow." The President was, he told the general, "powerless to help this. . . . The Country will not fail to note — is now noting...intrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated." The President concluded with an affirmation of his "purpose to sustain you," he assured McClellan,... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1194 pages
...only shifting and not snrmonuting a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy and the ваше or equal intrenchments at either place. The country...is now noting, that the present hesitation to move npon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassaa repeated. I beg to assure yon that I have never... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2003 - 947 pages
...growing Republican doubts of his loyalty. "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 move upon an entrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated. ... I have never written you ... in greater... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...growing Republican doubts of his loyalty. "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 move upon an entrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated. ... I have never written you ... in greater... | |
 | Ida M. Tarbell - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 572 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... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...from York-town to Warwick River, at once. They will probably use time, as advantageously as you can." 'The country will not fail to note — is now noting...intrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated," Lincoln wrote three days later. "I beg to assure you that I have never written you, or spoken to you,... | |
 | Stephen W. Sears - Fiction - 2001 - 516 pages
...enemy, and the same, or equal, intrenchments, at either place." The country could not fail to note "that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched...story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that 1 have never written you, or spoken to you, in greater kindness of feeling than now. . . . But you... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...so at once before the enemy increased his forces. Sensitive to public opinion Lincoln telegraphed, 'The country will not fail to note — is now noting — that the present hesitation to move upon an entrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated." Underscoring his point, he forcefully stated,... | |
 | Thomas Harry Williams - United States - 1941 - 444 pages
...let me tell you it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. . . . The country will not fail to note, is now noting,...upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated."40 It was hardly just for anyone to expect McClellan to strike much of a blow. With McDowell's... | |
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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... 
