| Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 760 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 you...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Halleck was almost equally generous... | |
| Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 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...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. THERE can be, I think, but one opinion among those competent to form a judgment of the general character... | |
| William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 540 pages
...finally did, — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and then go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I wish, now, to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Every man who... | |
| William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 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 you...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I wish, now, to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Every man who... | |
| William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 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 you...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I wish, now, to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Every man who... | |
| William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 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 you...Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down theriver and join General Banks, and when you turned northward,, east of the Big Black, I feared it... | |
| Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 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 you...Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go below and down the river and join General Banks ; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black,... | |
| Albert Deane Richardson - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 644 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 you...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. " Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN." Halleck, stirred to unwonted enthusiasm, also wrote : — " In boldness of... | |
| William Makepeace Thayer - 1885 - 410 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 you...mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment Unit you were right and I was wrong. " Yours very truly, "A. LINCOLN." And yet Grant's MODESTY never... | |
| L. T. Remlap - Voyages and travels - 1885 - 374 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 you...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgement that you were right and I ixas wrong Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. The brilliant... | |
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