| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 870 pages
...morning, have just reached this department. He save : " We have now ended the sixth day of very hard 4 , be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners in battle, while he has taken from us but few... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1865 - 1244 pages
...famous despatch to Secretary Stauton. It was as follows : " We have now ended the sixth day of very hard fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor....those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners in battle, whilst he has taken from us but few,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...morning, have just reached this department. He says : **\Ve have now ended the sixth day of very hard fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor....those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners in battle, while he has taken from us but few... | |
| Evan Morrison Woodward - Pennsylvania infantry. 31st regt., 1861-1864 - 1865 - 376 pages
...day, says : " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is very much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as...those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners in battle, while he has taken from us but few,... | |
| 1865 - 278 pages
...latter. The same morning, Lieutenant-General GRANT telegraphed as follows to Secretary STANTON : . " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is much in our favor. " HEAD-QCARTERS IN THE FIELD. May 11, 1864, 8 AM " Our losses have been heavy as well as those of the... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...which General Grant sent to Washington on the night of the llth summed up the results as follows : — We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in onr favor. Our losses have been heavy, na well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy... | |
| Evan Morrison Woodward - Pennsylvania infantry. 31st regt., 1861-1864 - 1865 - 374 pages
...skirmishing took place. General Grant in an official report to the Secretary of War, dated this day, says : " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is very much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss... | |
| Evan Morrison Woodward - Pennsylvania infantry. 31st regt., 1861-1864 - 1865 - 372 pages
...took place. General Grant in an official report to the Secretary of "War, dated this day, says : " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is very much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...which General Grant sent to Washington on the night of the llth summed up the results as follows :— "We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is nmch in our favor. Onr losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the... | |
| Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
...General Grant, dated at eight o'clock this morning, have just reached this Department. He eays : — " ' We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time ia much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the cnemv. I think the loss of... | |
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