 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 858 pages
...announced this crowning success of the campaign: SAVAXKAH, G A., December 22. Ли ExcAUncy President Lincoln : I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fitly heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twentyAre thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - United States - 1866 - 640 pages
...was placed in command of the city. Sherman sent the following terse dispatch to the President : — "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns, and plenty of ammunition, and about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton." There proved to be... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1866 - 600 pages
...the attack. He entered the captured city on the 21st, and sent the following telegram to President Lincoln: *I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.' So terminated the... | |
 | John R. Kinnear - Illinois - 1866 - 152 pages
...million five hundred thousand of fodder, were taken from the country and issued to the men and animals. heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Besides the history of this great raid, there are many other historical incidents connected with this... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...hands of the enemy. Sherman announced his success in a characteristic despatch. He wrote to President Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift,...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." And thus ended the story of the march to the sea. In his official report of his achievements, Gen.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...concentrated to oppose his advance. Sherman announced his crowning triumph to President Lincoln as follows: "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton." The President responded... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...21st of December. Sherman himself was absent, but two days later he returned, and telegraphed to Mr. Lincoln, "I beg to present you. as a Christmas gift,...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Once more the North rekindled its bonfires. In this steady-marching success of Confederate disasters,... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...hands of the enemy. Sherman announced his success in a characteristic despatch. He wrote to President Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift,...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." And thus ended the story of the march to the sea. In his official report of his achievements, Gen.... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...hundred miles within the enemy' a lines. A few days later its leader telegraphed the President : — " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, and about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton." On the last day of November,... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...valuable property. He immediately announced his success to the President in the following terms : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition and also about 25,000 bales of cotton." The present and in... | |
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I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. 
