 When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew...  The Rebellion Record: June '63-Nov. '63 - Page 29edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across tho neck, run tho batteries with the transports, and thus go below,...General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of tho Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...what you finally did, — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports aud thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except...when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was... | |
 | Adam Badeau - Generals - 1868 - 792 pages
...you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run 400 MILITARY HISTORY OF the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and joia General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake.... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When yon got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...Vicksburg, I thought you should do •what yon finally did- — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and tho like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did, — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below;...general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo-pass expedition and the W-- 167 like could succeed. When you got better, and took Port Gibson,... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...thought you should do what yon finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries wij.h the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew hotter than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition mid the like could succeed. AVhen you got below and took... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what yon finally did — march the troops across the neck, ran the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When yon got below, nnd took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like conld succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 944 pages
...of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below;...general hope that you knew better than I, that the Ynzoo Pass expedition and the like conld succeed. When you ¡jot below and took Port Gibson, Grand... | |
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