 | Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...never, in a single instance, telegraphed to President Lincoln as another had done, " If I save this army now, 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.'' * Gen. Grant determined... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...had not sustained him, he so far forgot himself a3 to say 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." The third Day,... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...accusations -, i -i T i 11 him, he so far forgot himself as to say 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." The third Day,... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1134 pages
...instant, I could dispose of ten thousand fresh men, I could gain the victory to-morrow. 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."* Of the tone of... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - 1872 - 404 pages
...never, in a single instance, telegraphed to President Lincoln as another had done, " If I save this army now, 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" * Gen. Grant determined... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - United States - 1876 - 830 pages
...Stanton on the 2Stli of June, twenty minutes after midnight, closed with these words: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any oilier person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." This phrase was... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1876 - 1086 pages
...McClellan wrote to the Secretary of War a letter closing in the following singular terms : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to aoj other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The incompetency... | |
 | United States. War Dept - Confederate States of America - 1884 - 1192 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now the game ia 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. Ton have done your best to sacrifice this army. GEO. B. McCLELLAN.... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 614 pages
...the Army of the Potomac. I have lost this battle because my force was too small. .... 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 destroy this army." The first remark... | |
 | William Rattle Plum - Military telegraph - 1882 - 408 pages
...thousand effective troops, but not at any one time. June 28, he telegraphed Stanton : "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no' thanks to you, or any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. " That was while nine thousand... | |
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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. 
