 | 1914 - 1066 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 Seiten
...in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak." He concluded: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Stanton still... | |
 | 1889 - 1060 Seiten
...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 owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.l It is probable that no other... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 280 Seiten
...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. "GB McCLELLAN". "Hon. EM STANTON." The headquarters camp at Savage's station was broken up early on... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 498 Seiten
...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, Major-General. To HON. EM STANTON, Secretary of War. The head-quarters' camp, at Savage's... | |
 | 1864 - 656 Seiten
...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... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - 1864 - 574 Seiten
...otherwise — 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." The day dawned hot and cheerless to the Army of the Potomac. No sound of a hostile gun disturbed the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1864 - 406 Seiten
...28th, in the bitterness of his soul, he had said, in a telegraphic message to the Secretary of War, "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That army he had saved; and the army was conscious of it. But there was nothing of triumph in his own... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1864 - 256 Seiten
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained thia army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. "You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN. "Hon. EM STANTON." The headquarters camp at Savage's station was broken up early on... | |
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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. 
