 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 700 pages
...the line of the James River, General McClellan had telegraphed the Secretary of War " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Perhaps no such dispatch... | |
 | Reunion Society of Vermont Officers - Local history - 1906 - 412 pages
...to wring the heart of President Lincoln by sending him a despatch in which he said : "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Then came the... | |
 | M. Quad - United States - 1885 - 582 pages
...the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army ! History need only... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1887 - 554 pages
...lying at Harrison's Landing, General McClellan telegraphed to the Secretary of War: " If I save this Army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this Army" It is an old maxim, fellow-citizens,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1887 - 506 pages
...could not be taken away. General McClellan sent a last despatch to Secretary Stanton : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." It was regarded... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not so now, the game is lost. " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. " GB McCLELLAN.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - United States - 1888 - 580 pages
...close of a long despatch to the Secretary of War on the 28th, General McClellan said : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." When Gen. John... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 834 pages
...Richmond the next day, and he closed the despatch to Sec. Stanton with the bold assertion: "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." On the third day,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - United States - 1888 - 342 pages
...following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." (28th June, 1862.)... | |
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If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. 
