 | Gary W. Gallagher - History - 2000 - 304 pages
...me. do pain me very much." The presidents "explicit order" that Washington "be left entirely secure. had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell." The safety of the capital was a "question which the country will not allow me to evade." Nor was Lincoln's... | |
 | Robert G. Tanner - History - 2002 - 640 pages
...McClellan protested frantically, but the president would not relent: "I do not forget," he wrote McClellan, "that I was satisfied with your arrangement to leave Banks at Manassas, but when that arrangement was broken up and nothing was substituted for it, of course I was not satisfied.... | |
 | James V. Murfin - History - 2004 - 476 pages
...for the defence of Washington. My explicit order that Washington should ... be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. The President concluded with a very polite suggestion that the general move at once and without any... | |
 | Jeffry D. Wert - History - 2005 - 576 pages
..."that Washington should, by the judgment of all commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell." 65 McClellan protested against the decision immediately. From that time and for the rest of his life,... | |
 | Jeffry D. Wert - History - 2005 - 598 pages
..."that Washington should, by the judgment of all commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell."65 McClellan protested against the decision immediately. From that time and for the rest... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove...broken up, and nothing was substituted for it, of cour»c I was constrained to substitute something for it myself. And allow me to ask, do you really... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of Army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell." Then came bickering. McClellan was to claim he must have more troops. He wrote his wife of "rascality"... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - 1916 - 822 pages
...should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left entirely secure, had been entirely neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to...and nothing was substituted for it, of course I was not satisfied ; I was constrained to substitute something for it myself."35 33 To these McClellan adds... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1862 - 506 pages
...order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove...but when that arrangement was broken up and nothing substituted for it, of course I was not satisfied. I was constrained to substitute something for it... | |
 | United States - 1884 - 1198 pages
...that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove...your arrangement to leave Banks at Manassas Junction ; bat when that arrangement was broken up and nothing was substituted for it, of coarse I was constrained... | |
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My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell. 
