 | Jennifer L. Weber - History - 2006 - 304 pages
...public sentiment, feared that morale in the North was flagging because of McClellan's lack of action. "The country will not fail to note — is now noting...intrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated," he wrote the general on April 9. "I beg to assure you that I have never written you, or spoken to you,... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...fighting at or near Manassas," said Lincoln, "was only shifting, and not surmounting, a difficulty. . . . The country will not fail to note — is now noting — that the present hesitation to move forward upon an intrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated."45 Lincoln was also disturbed... | |
 | Michael Knox Beran - History - 2007 - 521 pages
...General WB Franklin. He concluded his letter by reminding McClellan of the painted logs at Manassas. "The country will not fail to note — is now noting...intrenched enemy, is but the story of Manassas repeated." It was, the President said, "indispensable to you that you strike a blow, /am powerless to help this.... | |
 | United States - 1884 - 1198 pages
...not surmouuting a difficulty : that we wonld find the same enemy and the same or equal intrenchmeuts at either place. The country will not fail to note,...is now noting, that the present hesitation to move npon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Mauassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1862 - 506 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... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1866 - 828 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 tin 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... 
