 | Benjamin Perley Poore - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 466 pages
...1st. To concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope. 2d. 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... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 476 pages
...To concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope. 2nd. To leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectlv safe. " No middle ground will now answer. Tell me what vou wish me to do. and I will do all... | |
 | Theodore Burr Gates - United States - 1884 - 690 pages
...to use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." Then comes the key to all this diplomacy : "Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all in my power to accomplish it. 1 wish to know what my orders and authority are." At 7.50 PM of the 29th, Halleck telegraphs McClellan... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 476 pages
...get out qf hia scrape, and at once use all means to make the capital perfectly safe. No middle course will now answer. Tell me what you wish me to do, and 1 will do all in my power to accomplish it. l wish to know what my orders and authority are. l ask... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - United States - 1886 - 710 pages
...this Halleck made no reply. On the 29th McClellan telegraphed both the President and Gen. Halleck : " Tell me what you wish me to do, and I will do all...accomplish it. I wish to know what my orders and authority arc. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders you give. I only ask a prompt decision." To this... | |
 | Abner Ralph Small - Maine Infantry. 16th Regt., 1862-1865 - 1886 - 358 pages
...concentrate all of our available forces to open communication with Pope. Second, to 1868 leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe." " He stayed Franklin at Annandale, and sent Sumners northward toward Chain Bridge instead of toward... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - Battles - 1886 - 250 pages
...concentrate all our available force, 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." ' General Pope had opened his communications unaided by General McClellan. He had moved to the... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 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...what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders you give. I only ask a prompt decision, that 1 may at once give the necessary... | |
 | Fayette Hall - United States - 1890 - 76 pages
...to concentrate all our available forces, to open communication with Pope ; 2d, 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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 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...what my orders and authority are. I ask for nothing, but will obey whatever orders w R you give. I only ask a prompt decision, that I may at voi'xi., once... | |
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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. 
