 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I 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 neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I 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 neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and... | |
 | Francis Grant Blair - 1908 - 80 pages
...grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I 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 neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and... | |
 | Nicholas Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 432 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable services you have done the country. "I wish to say further: When you reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should...than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like would succeed. "When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1909 - 680 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. — I wish to say a word further — When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do, what you finaly did — March the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and then go... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1909 - 806 pages
...further — When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do, what you finaly did — March the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and then go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that... | |
 | Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - American letters - 1910 - 444 pages
...-inarch the troops across the neck, run the liatteiies with the transports, and thus j;o below ; and 1 never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I. that the Ya/oo P.iss expedition and the like could succeed. When you £<A below and took Port Cihson. Cr.ind... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Readers - 1911 - 190 pages
...acknowledgment for 'the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...troops across the neck, run the batteries with the trans- 5 ports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew... | |
 | John Codman Ropes - United States - 1913 - 360 pages
...practicable, and at that time surely the situation demanded it. Lincoln also thought2 that Grant should "march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below." It would have been better if the President had not expressed so decided an interest in the old canal.... | |
 | Bartow Adolphus Ulrich - Constitutional law - 1916 - 446 pages
...grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,...the neck, run the batteries with the transports and then go below ; and I never had any faith except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the... | |
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GENERAL : — I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this, now, as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg,... 
