 | Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - Study Aids - 1990 - 650 pages
...comrades to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army.. . . If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Document D Source: Confederate... | |
 | Clifford Dowdey - History - 1993 - 402 pages
...added three lines which the Washington telegraph dispatcher deleted before delivering the message: "If I save the 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." In finally giving... | |
 | Byron Farwell - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 582 pages
...destroyed by overwhelming numbers at least die with it and share its fate." He closed with "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army."4 Gone now was any... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...possibility of capitulation. "If I save this Army now," McClellan concluded a message to Stanton on June 28, "I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this army." These final sentences... | |
 | Michael McHugh - Generals - 1998 - 228 pages
...that the Govt 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 any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this Army. Geo. B. McClellan George... | |
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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. 
