 | Alonzo Rothschild - History - 1906 - 576 pages
...going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting and not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find...either place. The country will not fail to note — is noting now — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 462 pages
...is, he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements than you can by re-enforcements alone The country will not fail to note — is now noting...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." MOIST WEATHER AT THE FRONT. force to 53,000. Ten days before he came, McClellau telegraphed to Washington... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 456 pages
...is, he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforcements than you can by re-enforcements alone The country will not fail to note — is now noting...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." The weeks spent in the siege of Yorktown gave to the confederate commander the opportunity he wished.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 698 pages
...down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting, and not surmounting, a difficulty ; that we would find...or equal intrenchments at either place. The country CH.XVL] INACTIVITY OF McCLELLAN 617 will not fail to note, is now noting, that the present hesitation... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1906 - 612 pages
...or near Manassas, was only shifting and not surmounting a difficulty; that we would find the isame enemy and the same or equal intrenchments at either place. The country will not fail to note — is noting now — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 pages
...going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting and not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find...either place. The country will not fail to note — is noting now — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 404 pages
...going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting and not surmounting a difficulty; that we would find the...either place. The country will not fail to note — is noting now — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas... | |
 | Oliver Otis Howard - United States - 1907 - 686 pages
...of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting and not surmounting a difficulty; that we should find the same enemy and the same or equal intrenchments at either place." Mr. Lincoln instinctively felt that the true objective all the time was not Richmond but Johnston's... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 762 pages
...surmounting, a difficulty ; that we would fight the same enemy and the same or equal entrenchments at either place. The country will not fail to note,...now noting, that the present hesitation to move upon entrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. " I beg to assure you that I have never written... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1908 - 828 pages
...surmounting, a difficulty ; that we would fight the same enemy and the same or equal entrenchments at either place. The country will not fail to note,...now noting, that the present hesitation to move upon entrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. " I beg to assure you that I have never written... | |
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You will do me the justice to remember, I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting and not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal... 
