 | James D. McCabe - United States - 1874 - 972 pages
...undismayed by them, General Grant wrote to the war department, after the battle of the 12th of May: " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is very much in our favor, I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer " On the -21st... | |
 | James Moore (M.D.) - 1875 - 582 pages
...his famous despatch to Secretary Stanton, 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,... | |
 | Joseph Keith Newell - Massachusetts - 1875 - 630 pages
...follows, and was dated at eight o'clock in the morning : " 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 by battle, while he has taken from us but few,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...the front of 1 The dispatch was as follows, dated at eight o'clock on the morning of the llth : '* We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting....those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over &000 prisoners by battle, while he has taken from us but few, except... | |
 | Asa Mahan - History - 1877 - 474 pages
...facts of the case, or paid no respect to them : — * Head-quarters in the Field, May nth, 1867, 8 am " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is very much in our favour. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss... | |
 | Asa Mahan - History - 1877 - 498 pages
...of the case, or paid no respect to them : — " Head-quarters in the' Field, May nth, 1867, 8 am " We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is very much in our favour. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss... | |
 | International portrait gallery - 1878 - 462 pages
...phrases which, as we have remarked, formed one of the epochs of the war. "We have now ended," he said, " the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favour ; our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy — I think the losses of the enemy... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Campaign literature, 1880 - 1880 - 514 pages
...Grant sent to the War Department the following dispatch: " We have now ended the sixth day of very hard fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor....loss of the enemy must bo greater. We have taken over 5,000 prisoners in battle, while be has taken from us but few except stragglers. I propose to fight... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1880 - 646 pages
...characteristic bulletin to the War Department : — ' Headquarters in the Field, 'May 11, 1864,8 AM ' Wo have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favour. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1881 - 714 pages
...COURT-HOUSE, I May 11, 1864, 8.80AM | Major-General HALLECK, Chief of Staff of the Army, Washington, DC : We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor. But our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. We have lout to this time eleven general... | |
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We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners... 
