 | John Codman Ropes - United States - 1881 - 284 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...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.... | |
 | United States - 1881 - 262 pages
...operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. (j^have come to you from the West, where we have always seen...him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one instance haa the enemy been abkto place our Western armies hi a defensive attitude.... | |
 | Evan Rowland Jones - United States - 1881 - 272 pages
...issued a general order at once offensive and absurd. " I have come to you from the West," said he, " where we have always seen the backs of our enemies...when found — whose policy has been attack, and not defence. . . . I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find in... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 626 pages
...who had preceded him, and boasted of what he himself intended to do. " I have come to you," he said, "from the West, where we have always seen the backs...to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found." This made him unpopular with the Eastern soldiers, and created illfeeling against him among the officers.... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 624 pages
...who had preceded him, and boasted of what he himself intended to do. " I have come to yon," he said, "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."... | |
 | Charles Folsom Walcott - Massachusetts - 1882 - 562 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...found, whose policy has been attack and not defense. In but one inslance has the enemy been able to place our western armies in a defensive attitnde. I... | |
 | Benjamin F. Cook - Massachusetts - 1882 - 194 pages
...labors are nearly completed, and I am about to join you in the field. 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, and not defence. In but one instance has the enemy been... | |
 | 1882 - 266 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...enemies— from an army whose business it has been to seek trie adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one... | |
 | Charles Folsom Walcott - Massachusetts - 1882 - 570 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 the backs of our enemies — from an army whoso business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been... | |
 | William Swinton - History - 1882 - 790 pages
...removal of the Army of the Potomac from the Penfrom the West, where we have always seen the backs of the enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adccnary, and to beat him when found; whose policy has been attack and not defence. I presume I have... | |
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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. 
