 If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The president with infinite patience replied—"Save your army at all events," and promised...  The Civil War: The National View - עמוד 273מאת Francis Newton Thorpe - 1906 - 535 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1886 - 802 דפים
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN. CHAPTER XXVL Continuation of the Seven Days' battles—Allen's field—Savage's Station—... | |
 | 1887 - 618 דפים
...naturally regarded as a great achievement, declaring to Stanton while it was being accomplished, " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington." But how could he dare to claim credit for it now ? If one can hardly repress a smile at the constantly... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1887 - 506 דפים
...moved, or who could not be taken away. General McClellan sent a last despatch to Secretary Stanton: "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." It was regarded as very discourteous.... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1887 - 554 דפים
...by Lee and was lying at Harrison's Landing, General McClellan telegraphed to the Secretary of War: " If I save this Army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this Army." It is an old maxim, fellow-citizens,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 574 דפים
...base. At the close of a long despatch to the Secretary of War on the 28th, General McClellan said: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." When Gen. John B. Magruder, who had been left in the defences of Richmond, found that the National... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 378 דפים
...McClellan wrote the following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." (28th June, 1862.) We shall seek no epithet to characterize language like this. All but the most bigoted... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1892 - 814 דפים
...glad to retreat and save the men and material. “And now,” he concludes, “if I save this army, I tell you plainly, that I owe no thanks to you or...You have done your best to sacrifice this army.” To this the patient President replied: “Save your army at all events; you are ungenerous in assuming... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 598 דפים
...reserve, and shall be glad to cover my retreat and save the material and personnel of the army. . . If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The kind and patient words with which President Lincoln replied to this unsoldierly and unmanly petulance,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 600 דפים
...reserve, and shall be glad to cover my retreat and save the material and personnel of the army. . . If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The kind and patient words with which President Lincoln replied to this unsoldierly and unmanly petulance,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 378 דפים
...McClellan wrote the following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." (28th June, 1862.) We shall seek no epithet to characterize language like this. All but the most bigoted... | |
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