 | Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 pages
...and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the \ azoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was "wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. The... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1872 - 568 pages
...and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the \ azoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. The Southern... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 886 pages
...; 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...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks, und when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now... | |
 | Charles Abner Phelps - 1872 - 404 pages
...took Port Gibson, Great Gulf, and the vicinity, I thought you should go down the river, and join Gen.* Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you was right, and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. It was... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - United States - 1875 - 416 pages
...: and I never had an^ faith except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. A. LINCOLN." CHAPTER XXX. X3ZTJXDSOJST The Citadel on the Bluffs.— Four Miles of Batteries.— The Pledge... | |
 | Julian K. Larke - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 538 pages
...; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than 1, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and 1 was wrung* Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Several... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 250 pages
...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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and 1 was wrong.''1 Several gentlemen were near the President... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 260 pages
...that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass ex9 pedition and the 1 ike could succeed. When yon got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity,...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and 1 was wrong." Several gentlemen were near the President... | |
 | John Lindsay Swift - 1880 - 218 pages
...the only general who was always successful." Lincoln wrote him, " When you turned northward, east of Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." Amid all the congratulations and honors... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 760 pages
...; 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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Halleck was almost equally generous... | |
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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... 
