 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...21st of December. Sherman himself was absent, but two days later he returned, and telegraphed to Mr. Lincoln, "I beg to present you. as a Christmas gift,...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Once more the North rekindled its bonfires. In this steady-marching success of Confederate disasters,... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...hundred miles within the enemy' a lines. A few days later its leader telegraphed the President : — " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, and about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton." On the last day of November,... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...valuable property. He immediately announced his success to the President in the following terms : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition and also about 25,000 bales of cotton." The present and in... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...the enemy's lines. A few days later its leader telegraphed the President :— " I beg to present yon, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, and about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton." On the last day of November,... | |
 | William Whiting - Reconstruction - 1868 - 52 pages
...his country on the forts of Savannah. " I beg to present you," he telegraphed to President Lincoln, " as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns, plenty of ammunition, and about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Yes ; these peace Democrats... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 868 pages
...to the President; announced this crowning success of the campaign : SAVAXXAII, OA.. December 2i Hit Excellency President Lincoln : I beg to present you...heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twentyflvo thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major-General. The following from Gen. Foster gives... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - American literature - 1869 - 546 pages
...telegraphed to Lincoln:— * This, I learned afterward, from the Hon. Mr. , was duly don« by Mr. D»nleL " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns, and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." In January, Wilmington... | |
 | John D. Sherwood - Caricature - 1870 - 610 pages
...Savannah. Gathering its crop into one bundle, he despatched it to Mr. Lincoln with this epistle : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns, plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Truly cotton now... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1897 - 1172 pages
...the 22d the general sent his famous despatch to the President, which reached him on Christmas eve: «I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.o BUTLER'S EXPEDITION... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...instrumental in involving us in its attendant calamities. Sherman announced his triumph to the President: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton." To this Lincoln returned... | |
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I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. 
