 | Matthew Page Andrews - Southern States - 1912 - 308 pages
...twilight; The unfolding of the few Calm Stars; After the heat, the dew. VIRGINIA WOODWARD CLOUD august 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 defense. I presume that I have been called... | |
 | Isaac W. Heysinger - Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 - 1912 - 332 pages
...the Army of Virginia," tell them what manner of man he was. "Let us understand each other," he said. "I have come to you from the West, where we have always...from an army whose business it has been to seek the ad38 versary and beat him when he was found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense. In but... | |
 | James Irvin Robertson (Jr.) - United States - 1902 - 568 pages
...addresses of which we have any record in military history.8 " Let us," said he, " 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... | |
 | Sir Frederick Maurice - 1925 - 354 pages
...than numbers. They had very unwisely 1 Pope began his address: ' I have come to you from the We»t, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies; from an army whose business has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found.' Not very flattering to the men of... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...his troops calling for a spirited offensive attitude: "I have come to you from the West," he said, "where we have always seen the backs of our enemies;...has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found; whose policy has been attack and not defense." He later claimed that \\'ar Secretary... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1052 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 defense. In but one instance has the enemy been... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2003 - 947 pages
...to diminish his reputation for braggadocio in this singularly inept document. "I come to you out of the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies," he declared. "I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you . . . certain phrases [like] . . . 'lines... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...to diminish his reputation for braggadocio in this singularly inept document. "I come to you out of the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies," he declared. "I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you . . . certain phrases [like] . . . 'lines... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - History - 1998 - 702 pages
...Pope's address to his officers and men dated 14 July 1862, which included the bombastic statement, "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 defense." For both documents, see OR, 12, pt. 3:436-37,... | |
 | Eli N. Evans - Biographies - 1989 - 500 pages
...Virginia, immediately issued a ringing statement entitled "Headquarters in the Saddle." It announced: "I come to you from the West where we have always seen the backs of our enemies."1 That was the trouble with the Yankees, one of Jeb Stuart's old cavalry veterans responded,... | |
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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. 
