 When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew...  Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People - Page 327by Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 433 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1134 pages
...continued, "to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinitj* of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across...the like could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks;... | |
 | Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 pages
...wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across...the like, could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...country. I wish to say further: when you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did, — march the troops across...the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across...Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When yon got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 452 pages
...you first reached the vicinity of Vicksbnrg, I thought you should do what you finally did,—march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with...the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks;... | |
 | James Sanks Brisbin - Campaign literature, 1868 - 1868 - 424 pages
...When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did—march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with...the like, could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks;... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do •what yon finally did- — march the troops across the neck,...better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and tho like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across tho neck, run tho batteries with the transports, and thus go below,...the like could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks;... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...country. I wish to say further, when you first reached' the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did, — march the troops across...general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo-pass expedition and the W-- 167 like could succeed. When you got better, and took Port Gibson,... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...thought you should do what yon finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries wij.h the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew hotter than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition mid the like could succeed. AVhen you got below and took... | |
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