 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
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 614 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...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Under almost any other ruler such language would have been quickly followed by trial and dismissal,... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 דפים
...to use to-morrow I could take Richmond," he telegraphed Secretary Stanton. " If I save this country now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The Secretary's rage... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1903 - 506 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...You have done your best to sacrifice this army.” From now on the story of McClellan's Peninsular campaign is that of a retreat. There was fighting continuously... | |
 | 1864 - 808 דפים
...wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persona in Washington. You have done your best to But he speedily recovered his equanimity, and went... | |
 | 1914 - 1066 דפים
...addressed probably the most impertinent sentence ever written by a soldier to his military superior. 'If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.' But the same bitterness was manifested toward men much less deserving of it than the commander-in-chief... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - 1991 - 788 דפים
...sustained this army." He told the secretary of war: If I save my army, I will "owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." 6' McClellan's retreat and panicky telegrams caused the alarmed Lincoln to order reinforcements from... | |
 | Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - 1990 - 650 דפים
...dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army.... If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Document D Source:... | |
 | Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - 1990 - 650 דפים
...dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army.... If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Document D Source:... | |
 | Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - 1990 - 650 דפים
...dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army.... If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.” Document D Source:... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - 1992 - 692 דפים
...been employed against the weak side of Lee's line were not used. Typically, McClellan wired 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.” The supervisor of military telegrams ordered the sentence deleted before the... | |
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