 | Stephen W. Sears - Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 - 1983 - 468 pages
...to concentrate all our available forces to open communications with Pope; 2nd, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." Lincoln calmly responded that aiding Pope was the proper course, but the phrase "leave Pope to get... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...indifference, he had concluded on August 29 that it was best "to leave Pope to get out of his scrape & at once use all our means to make the Capital perfectly safe," and he spent most of the two days Pope was fighting for his life just thirty miles away fussing over... | |
 | Peter Viereck - 216 pages
...am. You have nothing to regret, but I have." Also: "You have correctly judged the state of affairs. Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do it." For this and similar material about his treatment of Alexander as pupil, see Mettemich, Memoirs,... | |
 | Jeffry D. Wert - History - 2005 - 598 pages
...all our available forces to communicate with Pope — 2nd to leave Pope to get out of his scrape & at once use all our means to make the Capital perfectly safe." Then, he halted the march of William Franklin's Sixth Corps at Annandale on August 29, a direct violation... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...available forces to open communication with Pope," or he should "leave Pope to get out of his scrape & at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." On Saturday morning, John Hay met the president at the Soldiers' Home and rode with him to the White... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 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. To this the President replied : WASHINGTON, August 29, 1862, 4.10 PM Yours of to-day just received.... | |
 | United States - 1884 - 1198 pages
...concentrate all onr 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... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 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...Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all in rny power to accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but... | |
 | B. Franklin Cooling - History - 2007 - 354 pages
...president, "Concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope" or "leave Pope to get out of his scrape and at once use all our means to make the Capital perfectly safe." In his mind, there could be no middle course.56 Lee and Pope at Second Manassas STONEWALL JACKSON'S... | |
 | A Centennial Edition Of The History Of The United States - 1875 - 842 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 safe." 628 [1862. sion of DH^Hill, and then, operating upon the original plan of General John* ston,... | |
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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. 
