 | James M. McPherson - History - 2003 - 952 pages
...because my force was too small. . . . The 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." That McClellan... | |
 | Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - Study Aids - 1990 - 659 pages
...comrades to feel otherwise than that the 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." Document D Source: Confederate... | |
 | Clifford Dowdey - History - 1993 - 380 pages
...added three lines which the Washington telegraph dispatcher deleted before delivering the message: "If I save the 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." In finally giving... | |
 | Byron Farwell - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 560 pages
...destroyed by overwhelming numbers at least die with it and share its fate." He closed with "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."4 Gone now was any... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 714 pages
...possibility of capitulation. "If I save this Army now," McClellan concluded a message to Stanton on June 28, "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." These final sentences... | |
 | Michael McHugh - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 224 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. Geo. B. McClellan George... | |
 | Gary W. Gallagher - History - 2000 - 272 pages
...and cannot hold me responsible for defeat." He concluded with these incredible words: "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 g Mi('.lt'llun\ ile1 iMo,i to re treat to thr James... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 612 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.68 As a matter of fact,... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...updating the secretary of war on his movements, and included the astonishing statement: "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." Fearing the secretary's... | |
 | Stephen W. Sears - History - 2001 - 468 pages
...battlefield and its dead and wounded that day. He concluded his dispatch with an indictment: "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." Neither Secretary... | |
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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. 
