 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...that you must reduce Fort Darling and the river batteries before you could advance on Richmond. " It is by no means "certain that the reduction of these...considerable time— perhaps as much as those at Yorktown. " Thie delay might not only be fatal to the health of yonr army, but in the mean 1 August 4-5. 1 On... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...that you must reduce Fort Darling and the river batteries before you could advance on Richmond. " It is by no means certain that the reduction of these...only be fatal to the health of your army, but in the meantime General Pope's forces would be exposed to the heavy blows of the enemy with-" out the slightest... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...position until it could be so recnforced would almost destroy it in that climate. In the mean time Pope's forces would be exposed to the heavy blows...without the slightest hope of assistance from you. He tells McClellan, in concl usion, that a large number of his highest officers are decidedly in favor... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...that you must reduce Fort Darlin.-l and the river batteries before you could advance 011 Richmond. It is by no means certain that the reduction of these...army, but in the mean time General Pope's forces would bo exposed to the heavy blows of the enemy without the slightest hope of assistance from you. In regard... | |
 | Peter Smith Michie - 1901 - 534 pages
...that you must reduce Fort Darling and the river batteries before you could advance on Richmond. It is by no means certain that the reduction of these...only be fatal to the health of your army, but in the meantime General Pope's force would be exposed to the heavy blows of the enemy without the slightest... | |
 | Peter Smith Michie - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 544 pages
...delay might not 'only be fatal to the health of your army, but in the meantime General Pope's force would be exposed to the heavy blows of the enemy without...from you. " In regard to the demoralizing effect of a withGEORGE BRINTON McCLELLAN. drawal from the Peninsula to the Rappahannock, I must remark that a large... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...that the reduction of these fortifi eations would not require considerable time — perhaps as muci as those at Yorktown. This delay might not only be fatal to the health of youi army, but in the mean time Gen. Pope's forces would be exCd to the heavy blows of the enemy without... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...that you must reduce Fort Darling and the river batteries before you could advance on Richmond. It is by no means certain that the reduction of these...considerable time — perhaps as much as those at Yorktown. . . . In regard to the demoralizing effect of a withdrawal from the Peninsula to the Rappahannock,... | |
 | Samuel Livingston French - History - 1906 - 382 pages
...even after you got the re-enforcements asked for, you admitted you must reduce Fort Darling, . . . It is by no means certain that the reduction of these...considerable time, perhaps as much as those at Yorktown. . . . In regard to the demoralizing effect of a withdrawal . . . . a large number of your highest officers... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1885 - 924 pages
...that you must reduce Fort Darling and the river batteries before you could advance on Richmond. It is by no means certain that the reduction of these...require considerable time, perhaps as much as those at Torktown. This delay might not only be fatal to the health of your army, but in the mean time General... | |
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It is by no means certain that the reduction of these fortifications would not require considerable time — perhaps as much as those at Yorktown. " This delay might not only be fatal to the health of your army, but in the mean time... 
