 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
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...finally did : march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you knew better than I that the Ya/.oo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1892 - 630 pages
...and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and the vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Banks; and 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... | |
 | Frederick Trevor Hill - Presidents - 1928 - 320 pages
...regarding his success : MY DEAB GENERAL: I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. ... I never had any faith, except a general hope that...knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition could succeed — When you got below and took Port Gibson ... I thought . . . you should join General... | |
 | James Irvin Robertson (Jr.) - United States - 1913 - 328 pages
...Vicksburg, I thought that 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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;...like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port-Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks;... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...Rather than saying that he understood the situation as well as Grant, the President's message read: "When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,...join General Banks; and when you turned northward Kast of the Big Black, I feared you had made a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgement... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 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;...like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port-Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...-march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I 561 never had any faith, except a general hope that you...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...done the country. . . . When you got below Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you would go down the river and join General Banks, and 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 was... | |
 | Peter Cozzens - History - 1996 - 550 pages
...did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,...join General Banks; and when you turned northward west of the Big Black, I feared you had made a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment... | |
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