 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 280 pages
...government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN".... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - United States - 1865 - 416 pages
...bitterness of his soul, he had said, in a telegraphic message to the Secretary of War, "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That army he had... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN. Hon.... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...was ever before permitted to say to his superior officer without instant dismissal—" If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington: yo^i ftave done your best to sacrifice this army." To tliis dispatch... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCliELLAN.... | |
 | J. T. Headley - United States - 1866 - 640 pages
...government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly, that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. "You have done your best to sacrifice this army." This was a terrible... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. " GB MCCLELLAN,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1866 - 662 pages
...because my force was too small. I again repeat, that I am not responsible for this. If. I save this army now, I tell you plainly, that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." President Lincoln,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...the result ; he must have more troops. "If I save this army now," said he to the Secretary of War, "I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any persons in Washington ; you have done your best to sacrifice this army." Was ever such petulance,... | |
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If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. 
