 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 426 pages
...28th, in the bitterness of his soul, he had said, in a telegraphic message to the Secretary of War, " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That army he had saved; and the army was conscious of it. But there was nothing of triumph in his own... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 406 pages
...28th, in the bitterness of his soul, he had said, in a telegraphic message to the Secretary of War, "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That army he had saved; and the army was conscious of it. But there was nothing of triumph in his own... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pages
...McClellan wrote the following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." (28th June, 1862.) We shall seek no epithet to characterize language like this. All but the most bigoted... | |
 | England - 1864 - 808 pages
...wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." But he speedily recovered his equanimity, and went on writing and telegraphing in the most cheerful... | |
 | Democratic National Convention - Campaign literature - 1864 - 64 pages
...faith in his mission: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly, that Fbwe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington. You have done, your best to sacrifice this army") — in that remarkable letter, written in camp, near Harrison's Landing, July 7th, 1862, with the enemy... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any othtr -@ x Ę +i %rk lP4 z T 6 ̺ G,) \ RfB C { ;" 0Ŗie o "G. IJ. McCi.ELLAN, Mnj.-Gen. " To Hon. EM STANTON, '• Secretary of War." To these reproachful missives,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...instant dismissal—" If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington : you have done your best to sacrifice this army" To this dispatch the President replied as follows : WASHINGTON, June 28, 1862. Save your army at all... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...instant dismissal — " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington : you have done your best to sacrifice this army." To this dispatch the President replied as follows : WASHINGTON, June 28, 1862. Save your army at all... | |
 | Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds - Military nursing - 1865 - 422 pages
...men, I could gain the victory tomorrow. I know that a few thousand more men would have changed this defeat to a victory. As it is, the Government must...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." While the battle of Games' Mill was in progress, I was despatched to several hospitals remote from... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now,...sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN. Hon. EM STANTON. Further communication with this officer was interrupted until, after his arrival at Harrison's Landing,... | |
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I feel too earnestly to-night, I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades, to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no... 
