 | Brian K. Burton - History - 2001 - 550 pages
...he wrote this telegram. The next paragraph makes McClellan's view a hit more clear: "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington" — presmuahly including Lincoln. Then the final paragraph, really... | |
 | Albert Castel - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 284 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 any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. Shocked by the last... | |
 | Eugene C. Tidball - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 594 pages
...overwhelmed him even after he brought his last reserves into action. He concluded, "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." Shocked by this concluding... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2002 - 224 pages
...comrades to feel otherwise than that this 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."6 A startled colonel in... | |
 | George Walsh - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 502 pages
...fact he had not been within miles of Porter's lines or used his 65,000 troops south of the river. "... 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."'7 Neither Stanton nor... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...victory — as it is the Govt must not & cannot hold me responsible for the result. ... 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." And with that, McClellan... | |
 | Philip Langer, Robert Pois - History - 2004 - 304 pages
...thought I was the fool."1co CHAPTER THREE McCLELLAN'S FLAWED CAMPAIGN: THE WOUNDED EGO 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 sacnfice the army. T An .HIS WAS TO BE THE culmination... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...to Stanton, his sense of injury mounted to a ferocious climax in the last sentence: "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." (The closing was so... | |
 | Charles Pierce Roland - History - 2004 - 348 pages
...because my force was too small. . . . This Government has not sustained this 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." Fortunately for... | |
 | James V. Murfin - History - 2004 - 476 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. 67 McClellan's... | |
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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. 
