 | Theodore Burr Gates - New York (State) - 1879 - 656 pages
...use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." Then comes the key to all this diplomacy : ' ' Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish it. 2 wish to know what my orders and authority are." At 7.50 PM of the 29th, Halleck telegraphs McClellan... | |
 | United States. War Dept - Confederate States of America - 1884 - 1192 pages
...concentrate all onr available forces to open communications with Pope ; Second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to...what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, bnt will obey whatever orders you give. I only ask a prompt decision, that I may at once give the necessary... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 614 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. No middle course will answer now. Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 632 pages
...concen träte 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 inaki the capital perfectly safe. No middle course will answer now. Tell m< what you wish me to do,... | |
 | United States - 1881 - 262 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. No middle course will now answer. Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1881 - 926 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope. Second, io leave Pope to get out of Ais scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital safe." 4 Clamors began to arise on every side. Men of influence, whose faith in the " young Napoleon,"... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 476 pages
...To concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope. 2nd. To leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectlv safe. " No middle ground will now answer. Tell me what vou wish me to do. and I will do all... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - United States - 1884 - 690 pages
...to use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." Then comes the key to all this diplomacy : "Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish it. 1 wish to know what my orders and authority are." At 7.50 PM of the 29th, Halleck telegraphs McClellan... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 476 pages
...get out qf hia scrape, and at once use all means to make the capital perfectly safe. No middle course will now answer. Tell me what you wish me to do, and 1 will do all in my power to accomplish it. l wish to know what my orders and authority are. l ask... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - United States - 1886 - 710 pages
...this Halleck made no reply. On the 29th McClellan telegraphed both the President and Gen. Halleck : " Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all...accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority arc. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders you give. I only ask a prompt decision." To this... | |
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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. 
