| Sir Adolphus William Ward - History, Modern - 1905 - 934 pages
...and shall be glad to cover my retreat and save the material and personnel of the army. 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." There was no occasion... | |
| Daniel Wait Howe - United States - 1902 - 444 pages
...indicated by his remarkable dispatch to the latter June 28, 1862, in which he said : "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." When McClellan... | |
| John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 pages
...shall be glad to cover my retreat and save the material and personnel of the army. . . . 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." Under almost any... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not so now, the game is lost. i 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.... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 770 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 McCLElXAN. July... | |
| William Eleroy Curtis - Presidents - 1902 - 476 pages
...to use to-morrow I could take Richmond," he telegraphed Secretary Stanton. " If I save this country 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." The Secretary's rage may... | |
| Guy Carleton Lee - 1903 - 506 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." From now on the... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...On the night of July 27 McClellan telegraphed to Secretary of War Stanton: " If I save this country 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 the army." Mr. Stanton, a man of fiery... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...On the night of July 27 McClellan telegraphed to Secretary of War Stanton: " If I save this country 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 the army." Mr. Stanton, a man of fiery... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - United States - 1903 - 566 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 any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The incompetency... | |
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