 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, tha game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you...You. . have done your best to sacrifice this army. " Or. B. McCi.ELi.AN, Maj.-Gen. "To Hon. EM STANTON, "Secretary of War." . To these reproachful missives,... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...the government had not sustained him, he so far forgot himself a3 to say 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." The third Day, Saturday, June 28th. The Retreat.- — The retreat to Immediately after the battle of... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...sustained His accusations -, i -i T i 11 him, he so far forgot himself as to say 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." The third Day, Saturday, June 28th. The Retreat.— The retreat to Immediately after the battle of... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1134 pages
...If, at this instant, I could dispose of ten thousand fresh men, I could gain the victory to-morrow. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...You have done your best to sacrifice this army."* Of the tone of such language to his superior we say nothing. But what could present a stranger picture... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...another had done, " 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.'' * Gen. Grant determined to force a passage across the Chickahominy. But a direct assault on the enemy's... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - 1872 - 404 pages
...another had done, " 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" * Gen. Grant determined to force a passage across the Chickahominy. But a direct assault on the enemy's... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1876 - 1086 pages
...singular terms : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to aoj other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The incompetency in leading and directing this unfortunate army, time has placed elsewhere than with... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 700 pages
...Secretary of War " 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." Perhaps no such dispatch was ever before sent by a military officer to the Commander-in-Chief of the... | |
 | M. Quad - United States - 1885 - 582 pages
...dispatched to Secretary Stanton from the Savage Station, and never to be forgotten while histoiy lives : I know that a few thousand more men would have changed...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army ! History need only preserve the words. Every house and hill and forest and meadow from Malvern to... | |
 | Reunion Society of Vermont Officers - Local history - 1906 - 412 pages
...work long enough to wring the heart of President Lincoln by sending him a despatch in which he said : "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Then came the retreat through White Oak Swamp and the battle of Malvern Hill, followed by messages... | |
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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... 
