 | James Schouler - United States - 1899 - 686 pages
...peninsula 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... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 764 pages
...i4thof July issued a very remarkable address, in which he said, among other things : I have come to join you 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, not defense. ... I desire you to dismiss from your... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 394 pages
...Confederates. Pope, despite the fact that he unfortunately entered upon his new command with the declaration, "I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies, ' ' had been forced back from Gordonsville to the Washington lines. His total battle casualties had... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - United States - 1902 - 444 pages
...command. In this address, together with much like stuff, Pope said : "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 Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your... | |
 | George Francis Robert Henderson - Confederate States of America - 1904 - 592 pages
...McClellan's army. 'I have come to you,' he said to his soldiers, ' from the West, where we have always Been the backs of our enemies — from an army 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... | |
 | John William Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 1906 - 504 pages
...operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come from the West, where we have always seen the backs...found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense. In but one instance has the enemy been able to place our Western army in a defensive attitude. I presume... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 766 pages
...his new command by issuing a grandiloquent proclamation to the officers and men under him, saying, " I have come to you from the West, where we have always...to seek the adversary and to beat him when found. I presume that I have been called here to pursue the same system and to lead you against the enemy."... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 622 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... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - History - 1906 - 576 pages
...most objectionable utterance was the Address to the Army, dated July 14, 1862. In this be said : — " 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 uot defence. In but one instance has the enemy been... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - United States - 1906 - 368 pages
...overtake and overwhelm him. He announced to his troops, by way of a suitable introduction of himself: " 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 defense. I presume I have been called here to... | |
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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. 
