 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 838 pages
...(lav, and he closed the despatch to Sec. Stanton with the bold assertion: "If 1 save this army now, 1 tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." On the third day. Saturday, 28 June, the movement was conducted rapidly but in good order. Immediately... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1909 - 1036 pages
...when, in the midst of defeats, he said to Stanton, "the Government has not sustained this army. . . . I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." It would have been well for the discipline of every man then in uniform, high and low, and would probably... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1887 - 554 pages
...Secretary of War: " If I save this Army now, I tdl you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this Army." It is an old maxim, fellow-citizens, that he only is fit to command who has proven himself ready to... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1887 - 554 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" It is an old maxim, fellow-citizens, that he only is fit to command who has proven himself ready to... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 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." Telegraphic communications were now broken, and no reply was ever made to this immodest, illtempered,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - United States - 1888 - 342 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... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 836 pages
...captured Richmond the next dav, and he closed the despatch to See. Stan ton with the bold assertion : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." On the third day, Saturday, 28 June, the movement was conducted rapidly but in good order. Immediately... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - United States - 1888 - 580 pages
...base. At the close of a long despatch to the Secretary of War on the 28th, General McClellan said : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." When Gen. John B. Magruder, who had been left in the defences of Richmond, found that the National... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...reserve, and shall be glad to л-vtr my retreat and save the material and personnel of the army. . . . If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. The kind and patient words with which President Lincoln replied to this unsoldierly and unmanly petulance,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 418 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... | |
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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... 
