 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...active operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen tho backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - History - 1866 - 910 pages
...Let us understand each other. I have come to you from the West where we hare always seen the bucks of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek an adversary and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one instance... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...active operations, and in placing yon in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, where we have always...him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one instance has the enemy been able to place our Western armies in a defensive attitude.... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Generals - 1866 - 752 pages
...positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. " 1 have come from the West, where ice /uzve always seen the backs of our enemies, — from an...it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him ic/ten found, — whose policy has been attack, and not defence. " In but one instance has the enemy... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...you from the West, where we have ponevjffcnsive always seen the backs of our enemies — from or cr' an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary,...— whose policy has been attack, and not defense. I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue among... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...you from the West, where we have pope's offensive always seen the backs of our enemies—from or er ' an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him. when found—whose policy has been attack, and not defense. I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...active operations, and in placing yon in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the hacks of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1871 - 690 pages
...portion of General Pope's order which we have italicized. In an address to the army, he added further : " I have come to you from the "West, where we have always...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when found — where policy has been attack, and not defence. I presume I have been called... | |
 | John Mead Gould - Maine - 1871 - 910 pages
...jealousy. That fatal pronunciamento of 220 A SOLDIER'S VERDICT. 1862. his where he said " I have come from the West where we have always seen the backs of our enemies," killed him. It was an unjust, ill-timed and cruel hit at all the eastern commanders. So when John Pope... | |
 | Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862 - 1879 - 992 pages
...promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, whore we have always seen the backs of imr enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to heat him when found; whose policy lias been attack and not defense. " 279 In but one instance has the... | |
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I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. 
