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? The American Civil War - Stran 284avtor: James Kendall Hosmer - 1913Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1865 - 874 strani
...could you help them ? If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsturg 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 ? A. LINCOLN. Sent 5.50 pm [Received 9 pm, June 14.] • HEADQUARTERS ABMY or ТПЕ POTOMAC, Duinfria,... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1865 - 854 strani
...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 you not break him ? A. LINCOLN. Sent 5.50 pm [Received 9 pm, June 14.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Dumfries, June... | |
| John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1866 - 264 strani
...could you help them ? If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg, and the tail of it on the flank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal...must be very slim somewhere ; could you not break him ?" saulted by General Banks (the coloured troops fighting heroically in the action), surrendered also,... | |
| John Esten Cooke - 1869 - 536 strani
...wrote Hooker, " and the tail of it on the Plank road, between Fredericksburg and Chanccllorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere- — could you not break him .'" But Hooker could not. Ho did not even try. Leo's movements seemed to paralyze him — his chief... | |
| John Esten Cooke - 1870 - 318 strani
...Martinsburg," wrote Lincoln, " and the tail of it on the Plank Road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorville, the animal must be very slim somewhere — could you not break him? " A. LINCOLN." There was little of the verbiage of " official dignity" there, and no " distinguished... | |
| John Esten Cooke - 1871 - 690 strani
...General Hooker : " If the head of ffeds army is at Martinsburg, and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal...be very slim somewhere — could you not break him f " General Hooker did not seem to be able to determine upon a decisive course of action, in spite... | |
| Edward Lee Childe - 1875 - 366 strani
...figurative style : " 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...be very slim somewhere, — could you not break him ?" It has been suggested that Lee's temerity came from the contempt which he had for his foe, whom... | |
| Edward Lee Childe - 1875 - 406 strani
...figurative style : " 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...be very slim somewhere, — could you not break him ?" It has been suggested that Lee's temerity came from the contempt which he had for his foe, whom... | |
| Charles H. Banes - 1876 - 326 strani
...again replied : " 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 ? "A. LINCOLN." — » The uncertainty dispelled, Hooker set about energetically moving towards Washington,... | |
| United States. War Department - 1889 - 1194 strani
...the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the Plank road between Frwlericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him? A. LINCOLN. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 14, 1803—7.10 pm The PRESIDENT : In answer to your dispatch... | |
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