 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...go below. I never had any faith, except a general hope, that you knew better than I that the Ya/.oo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you...you should go down the river and join General Banks. When you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1892 - 630 pages
...and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and the vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Banks; and when you turned northward east of the Big...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Halleck bestowed similar praise, and... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 pages
...except in a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like would succeed. "When you got below and took Port Gibson,...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Immediately after the ceremony of surrender... | |
 | James Irvin Robertson (Jr.) - United States - 1913 - 328 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. On the 1st of August, * when Halleck received Grant's report, he wrote: In boldness of plan, rapidity... | |
 | Richard N. Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1958 - 326 pages
...Vicksburg from the rear. "I feared it was a mistake," Lincoln wrote in his letter of congratulation. "I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." According to Grant's later reputation, however, he had done more than merely look to his immediate... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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 got below, and took Port-Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks;... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...Rather than saying that he understood the situation as well as Grant, the President's message read: "When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,...join General Banks; and when you turned northward Kast of the Big Black, I feared you had made a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgement... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 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 got below, and took Port-Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks;... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...done the country. . . . When you got below Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you would go down the river and join General Banks, and when...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. unvexed to the sea."... | |
 | Peter Cozzens - History - 1996 - 550 pages
...did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,...join General Banks; and when you turned northward west of the Big Black, I feared you had made a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment... | |
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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... 
