 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1194 pages
...concentrate all опт available forces to open communications with Pope ; Second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to...what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders you give. I only ask a prompt decision, that I may at once give the necessary... | |
 | Religion - 1991 - 394 pages
...wise boar told him the whole story. Then the monkey did reverence to the wise boar, and said to him : "Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do it." The wise boar replied : "I wish only to have my body restored to me like as it was before, and... | |
 | Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - History - 1994 - 278 pages
...to the president that the course of action he favored was "To leave Pope to get out of his scrape & at once use all our means to make the Capital perfectly safe." A newspaperman at the White House would report that he had never seen the president "so wrathful as... | |
 | Don Fehrenbacher, Virginia Fehrenbacher - History - 1996 - 674 pages
...Collected Works, V, 155. 21o. McClellan's actual phrasing was: "To leave Pope to get out of his scrape & at once use all our means to make the Capital perfectly safe." McClellan-1, 416. 2n. Collected Works, V, 442-43, 508-9. 2n. The word "live" appears in the manuscript... | |
 | George B. McClellan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 698 pages
...to concentrate all our available forces to open communications with Pope; 2d, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe. GEO. B. McCLELLAN, A. LINCOLN, President. And copy to Gen. Halleck. To which the following is a reply:... | |
 | John Pope - History - 1998 - 332 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communications with Pope; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape and at once use all our means to make the Capitol perfectly safe. No middle course will now answer. Tell me what you wish me to do and I will... | |
 | Stephen W. Sears - History - 1999 - 324 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope; Second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe. No middle course will now answer." Although the president responded mildly enough that it was the first course... | |
 | David A. Welker - History - 2007 - 294 pages
...to open communication with Pope—2nd To leave Pope to get out of his scrape by himself & at once to use all our means to make the Capital perfectly safe. No middle course will now answer. Tell me what you wish me to do & I will do all in my power to accomplish it.... | |
 | Christine W. Murphy - Fiction - 2001 - 153 pages
...sounded indignant. would beat him, as someone obviously had. He shook his head, evidently still confused. "Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do it. If you do not desire to use your last wish at this moment, I will continue to assist you until... | |
 | Paul G. Zeller - History - 2002 - 386 pages
...concentrate all our available forces to open communications with Pope; Second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." It is not the intent of this work to delve into this controversy, but to illustrate why the Federal... | |
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I am clear that one of two courses should be adopted: First, to concentrate all our available forces to open communications with Pope; Second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe. 
