 | 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... | |
 | J. F. C. Fuller - History - 2007 - 436 pages
...in one of the most extraordinary dispatches ever penned. It ended with these words : "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." T9 Not until a... | |
 | Frank Van der Linden - History - 2007 - 332 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. Lee ordered a hot... | |
 | Ben Fuller Fordney - History - 2010 - 208 pages
...this...."59 McClellan concluded with what amounted to a charge of criminal conspiracy: "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."60 The message was received... | |
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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. 
