 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
 | Loomis T. Palmer - Generals - 1885 - 740 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;...when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgement that you •mere right and I... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - Presidents - 1885 - 800 pages
...march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and 1 never had any faith, except a general hope that you...when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgement that you •were right and I... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Generals - 1885 - 752 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. . . . When you got below Vicksburg and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought...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... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 936 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. . . . When you got below Vicksburg and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought...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... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1885 - 472 pages
...of Vicksburg, I luought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...had any faith, except a general hope that you knew bet ter than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below and... | |
 | New England - 1885 - 504 pages
...finally did, — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and then go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you knew better than I that the Yazoo-Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below, and took Fort Gibson, Grand Gulf,... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1885 - 722 pages
...least fifteen thousand men after this, and had thirty-two thousand to surrender, two months later. the batteries with the transports, and thus go below...I never had any faith, except a general hope that yon knew better than I, that the Yazoo pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1886 - 528 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...when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Biography & Autobiography - 1886 - 384 pages
...you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and then go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general...when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I wish, now, to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 790 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...when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgement that you were right and I was... | |
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