 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 560 pages
...at once. I shall draw back to this side of Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said tUat my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost nothing but men, and those the best we have. "!D addition to what I have already said, I only wish to say to the President that I think he is wrong... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 574 pages
...re-enforcements, and send them at once. ... I only wish to say to the President, that I think that he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous, when I said that my force was too weak. As it is, the government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 514 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all of our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I say that my force was too small. I merely reiterate a truth which to-day has been plainly proven. I... | |
 | James Fowler Rusling - Generals - 1899 - 452 pages
..." strategic change of base " hue ! send me very large reinforcements, and send them at once. * • I only wish to say to the President, that I think he is wrong h: garding me as ungenerous, when I said my force was too weak. ' ' The Government must and cannot... | |
 | Peter Smith Michie - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 544 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 770 pages
...once. I shall draw back to this side of the Chickahominy, and think I can withdraw all our material. Please understand that in this battle we have lost...ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. I merely intimated a truth which to-day has been too plainly proved. If, at this instant, I could dispose of... | |
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In addition to what I have already said, I only wish to say to the President that I think he is wrong in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak. 
