| charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those... | |
| Charles E. Davis - United States - 1893 - 570 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... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those... | |
| Henry Alexander White - United States - 1897 - 648 pages
...formal address, July 14, to reanimate the brigades whom Jackson had left demoralised in the valley: " 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, not defence. ... I desire you to dismiss from... | |
| John Codman Ropes - United States - 1898 - 500 pages
...addresses of which we have any record in military history.* " 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... | |
| George Francis Robert Henderson - Generals - 1898 - 708 pages
...the expense of McClellan and of McClellan's army. 'I have come to you,' he said to 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 defence. . . . I presume that I have been... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 618 pages
...in it " a feeling of confidence and a cheerful spirit which were sadly wanting," 6 he announced : " 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. ... I presume that I have been called here to pursue the same system and to lead you... | |
| James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 870 pages
...troops that he had most at heart. " I have come to you from the West, " he proclaimed on the 14th, "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 defence." "I presume I have been called here to... | |
| |