 | 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... | |
 | James Panabaker - History - 2004 - 264 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." Having thus unburdened... | |
 | Jeffry D. Wert - History - 2005 - 598 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."32 When the telegram... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved." Finally, he vindictively added: "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." When the supervisor... | |
 | Laura Leedy Gansler - Nurses - 2005 - 280 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. The telegraph operator... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Govt has not sustained this army... 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."211 McClellan had not... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Govt has not sustained this army...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." 211 McClellan had... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...small. . . . The government must not and 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 to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army."53 Lee hammered... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not 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. GB McCLELLAN. Hon.... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
