 | Nebraska. Department of Public Instruction - 1913 - 216 דפים
...telegraphed to Generalj.dooker in 1863 in the following words: "If the head of Lee's army is at Mai linsburg, and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. the animal must be slim somewhere. Could you not break him?" During a conversation on the approaching election, in 1864,... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1913 - 410 דפים
...If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg (near the Potomac), and the tail of it on the plank-road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him?" "Fret him and fret him," was the president's injunction to Hooker, regarding the advance of Lee.... | |
 | Francis Ellington Leupp - 1915 - 416 דפים
...keep his humor out of his official communications, as in this despatch to General Hooker in Virginia: "If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg, and...Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be pretty slim somewhere. Couldn't you break him?" Indeed, it was his instinctive discernment of the ridiculous... | |
 | George William Beale - 1918 - 236 דפים
...surrounded in Winchester, and Tyler at Martinsburg. If they could hold out a few days, could you help them? If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it is on the Plank Road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1920 - 362 דפים
...surrounded at Winchester, and Tyler at Martinsburg. If they could hold out a few days, could you help them? If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank-road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must J>e very slim somewhere; could... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1920 - 570 דפים
...deferred to the generals. He kept writing to them, urging them to stick to their work. For instance, " If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg, and the tail of it between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - 1923 - 398 דפים
...good advice. A few days later Lincoln offered Hooker another sensible suggestion. ' If,' he said, ' the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail...animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him ? ' Following these suggestions, Hooker abandoned all thoughts of crossing the Rappahannock, and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 524 דפים
...surrounded at Winchester, and Tyler at Martin sburg. If they could hold out a few days, could you help them? If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank-road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere; could... | |
 | Daniel Kilham Dodge - 1924 - 198 דפים
...of picturesque messages these two, both addressed to General Hooker, are perhaps the most striking: "If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the...animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him?" "In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped... | |
 | Sir Frederick Maurice - 1925 - 358 דפים
...On the 14th, too, Lincoln wrote to Hooker: 'If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the rest of it on the Plank Road between Fredericksburg and...animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him?' 1 A very reasonable suggestion if armies were without encumbrances and could be moved like chessmen... | |
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If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him? 
