 | Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers - Iowa - 1888 - 720 pages
...plainly," he dared write to the War Department, " if I save this army now, I owe no thanks to you, nor to any person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." It seemed as if the government feared the man who was leading its armies to disaster in the East. Private... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...be glad to л-vtr my retreat and save the material and personnel of the 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. The kind and patient... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - United States - 1890 - 372 pages
...following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter : " 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." (28th June, 1862.)... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...ever before permitted to say to his superior officer without instant dismissal — " 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" To this dispatch the... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
