 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. The proclamation which the President issued upon occasion of these victories is worthy of perusal on... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...right and I was wrong. " Yours, truly, "A. LINCOLN." The following was issued in commemoration of the victories at Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Gettysburg... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 498 pages
...below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...right and I was wrong. " Yours, truly, "A. LINCOLN." The following was issued in commemoration of the victories at Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Gettysburg:... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...below; and I never had any faith except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Page , expect us to do our duty, even to the sacrifice...are now about the same as those of the enemy. Ho A. LINCOLN." While these events were taking place in the immediate neighborhood of Vicksburg, a remarkable... | |
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong. " Yours, very truly, "A. LINCOLN."... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 pages
...Cannon, then of Gen. Wool's staff. f have done the country. I write to say a word further. * * * When you took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought...acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." How gently he assuaged the tumult of party strifes, by his tone of magnanimity toward iis defeated... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...below ; and I never luiJ any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...down the river and join General Banks, and when you tnrned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 884 pages
...had any faith, except a generaf hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition und the like could succeed. When you got below and took...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks, Mid when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition «nd the like could succeed. When you got below and took...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Uen. Banks, ind when you turned northward, east of the Big black, I feared it was a mistake. I now... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should gu dowu the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared... | |
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When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew... 
