 | 1866 - 424 pages
...McClellan's reply : [Time received, 3.30 pm] "HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF POTOMAC, his scrape, and at once to use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe. No middle course will, now answer. Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope ; 2d. To leave Pope to get out of hit scrape, and at once use all our means to make the...I will do all in my power to accomplish it. I wish •August 29. to know what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever erders... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...McClellan suggested that among the courses that might be adopted there was one — " to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." It is said that when President Lincoln read this dispatch he was so horror-stricken that he fell back... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...McClellan suggested that among the courses that might be adopted there was one— "to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." It is said that when President Lincoln read this dispatch he was so horror-stricken that he fell back... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - Generals - 1869 - 538 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communication with POPE. " Second. To leave POPE to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the Capital perfectly safe."— MCCLELLAN TO LINCOLN, August 29th, 1862. "POPE now repeated with greater earnestness his request, made... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - Generals - 1870 - 582 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communication with POPE. » " Second. To leave POPK to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the Capital perfectly "safe."—MCCLELLAN TO LINCOLN, August 29th, 13fl2. "POPE now repeated with greater earnestness his... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - North America - 1877 - 764 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope ; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the Capital safe." Lee was afraid to attack the Nationals at Centreville, so he sent Jackson on another flank movement... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1878 - 722 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope ; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the Capital safe." Lee was afraid to attack the Nationals at Centreville, so he sent Jackson on another flank movement... | |
 | George Henry Gordon - United States - 1879 - 546 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope ; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to...the capital perfectly safe." " No middle ground," he said, " will answer." If the President would tell him, he added, what he wished him to do, he would... | |
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I am clear that one of two courses should be adopted: first, to concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe. 
