 | George B. McClellan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 698 pages
...to concentrate all our available forces to open communications with Pope; 2d, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe. GEO. B. McCLELLAN, A. LINCOLN, President. And copy to Gen. Halleck. To which the following is a reply:... | |
 | John Pope - History - 1998 - 332 pages
...concentrate all our 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 make the Capitol perfectly safe. No middle course will now answer. Tell me what you wish me to do and I will... | |
 | Stephen W. Sears - History - 1999 - 324 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." Although the president responded mildly enough that it was the first course... | |
 | Christine W. Murphy - Fiction - 2001 - 153 pages
...sounded indignant. would beat him, as someone obviously had. He shook his head, evidently still confused. "Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do it. If you do not desire to use your last wish at this moment, I will continue to assist you until... | |
 | David A. Welker - History - 2007 - 294 pages
...to open communication with Pope—2nd To leave Pope to get out of his scrape by himself & 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 & I will do all in my power to accomplish it.... | |
 | Paul G. Zeller - History - 2002 - 386 pages
...concentrate all our 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 make the capital perfectly safe." It is not the intent of this work to delve into this controversy, but to illustrate why the Federal... | |
 | Stephen W. Sears - Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 - 1983 - 468 pages
...to concentrate all our available forces to open communications with Pope; 2nd, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." Lincoln calmly responded that aiding Pope was the proper course, but the phrase "leave Pope to get... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...indifference, he had concluded on August 29 that it was best "to leave Pope to get out of his scrape & at once use all our means to make the Capital perfectly safe," and he spent most of the two days Pope was fighting for his life just thirty miles away fussing over... | |
 | Jeffry D. Wert - History - 2005 - 598 pages
...all our available forces to communicate with Pope — 2nd to leave Pope to get out of his scrape & at once use all our means to make the Capital perfectly safe." Then, he halted the march of William Franklin's Sixth Corps at Annandale on August 29, a direct violation... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...available forces to open communication with Pope," or he should "leave Pope to get out of his scrape & at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." On Saturday morning, John Hay met the president at the Soldiers' Home and rode with him to the White... | |
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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. 
