 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1916 - 500 pages
...too weak." He concluded: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Stanton still expressed the extraordinary hope that Richmond would fall in a day or two. He had lately... | |
 | Charles Morris - Biography & Autobiography - 1919 - 398 pages
...to Secretary Stanton: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." It soon became evident that the administration did not agree with him, and that he had lost its confidence.... | |
 | Clarence Edward Noble Macartney - Generals - 1925 - 256 pages
...tomorrow. I know that a few thousand more men would have changed this battle from a defeat to a victory. I feel too earnestly tonight; I have seen too many...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The thrust of this message was meant for Stanton, but it included the President also. Lincoln's distress... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1925 - 670 pages
...Toward the close of 1862, when Cyrus was taking over the Palladium, McClellan was writing to Stanton: "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." This was the charged and stormy atmosphere which the young man breathed and was to breathe during the... | |
 | Frederick Trevor Hill - Presidents - 1928 - 320 pages
...the Secretary of War : "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The only response which any officer could reasonably expect to such a tirade would be an order removing... | |
 | Don Carlos Seitz - Presidential candidates - 1928 - 462 pages
...lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McClellan. US commander-in-chief. The reflex of this was the appointment of General HW Halleck, "Two-faced" McClellan... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 758 pages
...intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose often thousand (10,000) fresh men, I could gain the victory...You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLEIiAN. July 2, . . . Berhley, James river, — . . . I have only energy enough left to scrawl you... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - Presidents - 1917 - 526 pages
...too weak." He concluded: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Stanton still expressed the extraordinary hope that Richmond would fall in a day or two. He had lately... | |
 | History - 1980 - 224 pages
...reserve, and shall be glad to cover 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 manpower crisis would not brook delay, but Lincoln feared that a public appeal from him for a huge... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...sustained this army." He told the secretary of war: If I save my army, I will "owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington . You have done your best to sacrifice this army."6' McClellan's retreat and panicky telegrams caused the alarmed Lincoln to order reinforcements... | |
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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... 
