 | Donn Piatt - United States - 1893 - 680 pages
...of War in the following words, which give the true measure of the man. They read : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other person in Washington. Yea have done your best to sacrifice this army." • It was the belief... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 394 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." 2 It was safe... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...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 person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Three days later... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Bookbinding - 1893 - 728 pages
...lying at Harrison's Landing, General McClellan telegraphed to the Secretary of War : " If I nave 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,... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 574 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 person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army."— [Greeiey, p.... | |
 | United States - 1895 - 578 pages
...Stanton, he exhibited the deep chagrin and unhappiness which he felt in these words: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons iu Washington; you have doneyour best tosacrifice this army." He had fought the battle... | |
 | Periodicals - 1895 - 630 pages
...letter was written, McClellan had addressed Stanton a long letter, 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." That McClellan,... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 618 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 1 My authorities for this account are: the correspondence, OR, vol. xi. parts i. and iii. ; McClellan's... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 528 pages
...with ten thonsand fresh men," are stricken out, and the following words are added : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." In the absence of any... | |
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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. 
