 | Albert Castel - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 284 pages
...he sent this remarkable message to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton: I feel too earnestly tonight. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...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... | |
 | Stephen W. Sears - Fiction - 2001 - 516 pages
...of the 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... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...M. Stanton 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... | |
 | Brian K. Burton - History - 2001 - 550 pages
...Govermnent must not and cannot hold me responsihle for the result. l feel too eamestl\ to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than thai the Govermnent has not sustained this auny. If you do not do so now the game is lost. If I save... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 804 pages
...first of the Seven Days' battles, telegraphed to Secretary Stanton: "I have seen too many dead ana wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the government...this army. If you do not do so now the game is lost." Then McClellan used accusing words: "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks... | |
 | Eugene C. Tidball - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 594 pages
...superior numbers 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... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2002 - 232 pages
...dead and wounded 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." A startled colonel... | |
 | George Walsh - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 502 pages
...demonstrated at Yorktown, but he should have been overrun. Yet McClellan refused to admit his failings. "I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Govt has not sustained this Army," he wired Secretary of War Stanton, ignoring the fact he had not... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2002 - 224 pages
...small," he told Stanton. "The government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. ... I have seen too many dead and wounded 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... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...defeat to a 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,... | |
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I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. 
