 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. " The strongest position a soldier should desire...one from which he can most easily advance against tho enemy. " Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 498 pages
...occupy is the one from which he can most easily advance upon the enemy. Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of itself. Let us look before and not behind. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear." General Pope then... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Generals - 1866 - 752 pages
...of supplies. Let us dismiss such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupj in one from which he can most easily advance against...own to take care of themselves. Let us look before and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear. Let us act... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 pages
...strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. " The strongest position a soldier should desire...enemy. " Let us study the probable lines of retreat of onr opponents, and leave our own to take car* of themselves. Let us look before, and not behind. Success... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire...one from which he can most easily advance against tlie enemy. Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...strong positions and holding them— of lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies. Let ns discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire...Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lark in the rear. Let us act on this understanding, and it is safe to predict that your banners shall... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...strong positions, and holding them — of lines of retreat, and bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire...own to take care of themselves. Let us look before, and not behind." If the appointment of Pope to his new command was its unhappy con- distasteful to... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to oqcupy is one from which he can most easily advance against...own to take care of themselves. Let us look before, and not behind." If the appointment of Pope to his new command was its unhappy con- distasteful to... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - United States - 1870 - 360 pages
...their backs ; " and issued an order to the army, in which he said : " Let us study the probable line of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of itself. Let us look before and not behind. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear." The sequel, as the... | |
 | John Mead Gould - Maine - 1871 - 910 pages
...strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire...not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster*and shame lurk in the rear. Let us act on this understanding, and it is safe to predict that... | |
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I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the... 
