 | Brian K. Burton - History - 2007 - 189 pages
...McClellan wrote a telegram to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton that ended with the sentences, "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." Those sentences... | |
 | Wilmer L. Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 392 pages
...to capture Richmond. "If I save this army now," he wrote in a dispatch to Secretary of War Stanton, "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."33 Throughout the war,... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...game is lost." Then McClellan used accusing words: "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that 1 owe no thanks to you or any person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Of these words, McClellan wrote his wife: "Of course they will never forgive me for thai. I knew it... | |
 | Michael Knox Beran - History - 2007 - 521 pages
...insinuated that he had been undone by treachery at the highest levels of the Republic. "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." This was always to be... | |
 | Bob Deans - History - 2007 - 350 pages
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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. 
