 | 1914 - 1066 pagina’s
...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 I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.' But the same bitterness was... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pagina’s
...he is wrong 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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1864 - 808 pagina’s
...roused to anything like reproach, and then not on personal grounds. The losses he had suffered in the disaster of Gaines' Mill deeply moved him, and he...plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." But he speedily recovered his... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 500 pagina’s
...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 persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB MCCLELLAN, Major-General.... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 324 pagina’s
...that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so 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." Stern and terrible words ! such... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 344 pagina’s
...that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so 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." Stern and terrible words ! such... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1864 - 150 pagina’s
...government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. u If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. 44 You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLKLLAN, " Major General,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1864 - 426 pagina’s
...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 I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That army he had saved; and... | |
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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. 
