 | Finance - 1870 - 500 pages
...army entered on the following day. Gen. Sherman then sent to President Lincoln the following dispatch: "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." Thus was closed a... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - United States - 1872 - 890 pages
...men killed, — I and two hundred and forty-five wounded. He telegraphed to the President : " I bog to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah,...hundred and fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition, aiid also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." During his inarch several movements had been... | |
 | William Henry Venable - United States - 1872 - 316 pages
...13th of December. Savannah was evacuated a few days after, and Sherman sent the following dispatch to President Lincoln: " 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." Sherman remained nearly... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Northwest, Old - 1875 - 958 pages
...follow General Sherman in his heroic march to Savannah. On the 32d of December, 1865, he telegraphed President Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas...also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." On the 15th of January he recommenced his march through South Carolina to Raleigh, in North Carolina.... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - History - 1875 - 394 pages
...and the Union Army entered it ; and General Sherman wrote to President Lincoln, " I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with...fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition, and also twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." He had lost, in the march, only sixtythree killed, and two hundred... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - United States - 1875 - 622 pages
...irrepressible shouts of delight as they reached the end of their march. Sherman at once telegraphed to Lincoln, " I beg to present you as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns, plenty of ammunition, and 25,000 bales of cotton." I think President Lincoln never had a more... | |
 | James Moore (M.D.) - 1875 - 582 pages
...the 22d. The city had surrendered to General Geary. Sherman sent the President this despatch: '• I beg to present you, 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." There were found in all... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 428 pages
...1864. To His Excellency President LINCOLN, Washington, DC : I beg to present yon as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton. WT SHERMAN, Major- General. This message actually reached... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...22d, Savannah surrendered, and on the 26th, the triumphant general telegraphed to the president, " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah." His objects had been completely obtained, the Georgia railways being broken up, the manufactories,... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 538 pages
...22d, Savannah surrendered, and on the 26th, the triumphant general telegraphed to the president, " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah." His objects had been completely obtained, the Georgia railways being broken up, the manufactories,... | |
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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. 
