 I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as, in my most anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act.  Congressional Serial Set - Page 2971916Full view - About this book
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 702 pages
...spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you BO far as, in my most anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act."1 Instead, however, of piercing the Confederate line by assault, McClellan sat down before Yorktown,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...anxious judgment I consistently can; but you must act. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. LETTER TO GEN. GB McCLELLAN. FORT MONROE, Va., May 9, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 528 pages
...Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written or spoken to you in a kindlier spirit than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you,...anxious judgment I consistently can ; but you must act. April 12 McClellan telegraphed Stanton : — I thank you most sincerely for the reinforcements sent... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as in...anxious judgment I consistently can; but you must act. McClellan did act but with such caution that he consumed all of April and most of May in working his... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as in...anxious judgment I consistently can; but you must act. McClellan did act but with such caution that he consumed all of April and most of May in working his... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1901 - 264 pages
...but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you I have never written ... in greater kindness, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as...anxious judgment I consistently can. But you must act." Still nothing was done, and, on the 25th of May, Lincoln telegraphed to McClellan : " I think the time... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...my most anxious judgment, I consistently can. But y-au must act. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Maj.-Gen. MC(JLELLAS. Gen. McOlellan, in the early part... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...anxious judgment I consistently can; but you must act. [Telegram to General McClellan, Washington, 1 May 1862.] Your call for Parrott guns from Washington... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act. At what seemed the earliest day practicable, Secretary Stanton telegraphed to the General, granting... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than...anxious judgment I consistently can; but you must act. [Telegram to General McClellan, Washington, 1 May 1862.] Your call for Parrott guns from Washington... | |
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