 | 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... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 700 pages
...the line of the James River, General McClellan had telegraphed the Secretary of War " 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." Perhaps no such dispatch... | |
 | Reunion Society of Vermont Officers - Local history - 1906 - 412 pages
...to wring the heart of President Lincoln by sending him a despatch 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." Then came the... | |
 | M. Quad - United States - 1885 - 582 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 ! History need only... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1887 - 554 pages
...lying at Harrison's Landing, General McClellan telegraphed 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 persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this Army" It is an old maxim, fellow-citizens,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1887 - 506 pages
...could not be taken away. General McClellan sent a last despatch to Secretary Stanton : " 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." It was regarded... | |
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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. 
