 | Robert Matteson Johnston - Blood - 1907 - 426 pages
...general. Pope soon became active. He issued a bombastic proclamation to his troops in which he said: "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, whose policy has been attack and not defence ..." He tried hard, very hard, to... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 674 pages
...address to his troops, July 14, dated "Headquarters in the Saddle": — "Let us understand each other. I come to you from the West where •we have always...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when he was found ; whose policy has been attack and not defence. ... I presume I have been... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - History - 1907 - 432 pages
...issuing a proclamation which implied a disparaging comparison between the armies of the East and West : " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies. ... I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find so much in vogue... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - 1908 - 394 pages
...successes. On July 14th, Pope issued this address to his soldiers : "Let us understand each other. I have come to you from the West, where we have always...has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when he was found ; whose policy has been attack aud not defence. ... I presume that I have been called... | |
 | Thomas Kemp Cartmell - Reference - 1909 - 648 pages
...as taken from OR, Vol. XII, part III, pp. 474, etc.) "I have come to you" addressing his soldiers, "from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defense * * * I presume that I have been... | |
 | Joseph Beatty Doyle - Edwin McMasters Stanton Statue (Steubenville, Ohio) - 1911 - 544 pages
...McClellan. Shortly after assuming command Gen. Pope issued an order, saying among other things: "I hava come to you from the West, where we have always seen...has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found. I presume that I have been called here to pursue the same system and to lead you against... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier - United States - 1911 - 394 pages
...mind, to the failure of the Eastern armies in their attempt upon Richmond. Pope himself proclaimed, "I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." So he set out for the front with "headquarters in the saddle." He could not know what the world later... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - United States - 1911 - 368 pages
...mind, to the failure of the Eastern armies in their attempt upon Richmond. Pope himself proclaimed, "I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." So he set out for the front with "headquarters in the saddle." He could not know what the world later... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier - United States - 1911 - 370 pages
...mind, to the failure of the Eastern armies in their attempt upon Richmond. Pope himself proclaimed, "I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." So he set out for the front with "headquarters in the saddle." He could not know what the world later... | |
 | Mary Johnston - Fiction - 1911 - 722 pages
...— General Early, drive them with the bayonet." Late that night on the banks of Bull Run the general "from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemy " sent a remarkable telegram to Halleck at Washington. " We fought a terrific battle here yesterday... | |
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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. 
