 I see that the Secretary of War proposes to degrade me, by requiring that, I, the commander of this army, shall defer to you the chief clerk of the Department of State, the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities.  The Peninsula: McClellan's Campaign of 1862 - Stran 174avtor: Alexander Stewart Webb - 1881 - 219 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | United States. Congress. House - 1306 strani
...to degrade me, by requiring that I, the commander of this army, shall defer to yon, the chief clerk of the Department of State, the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities. I beg to say to him and to you, that here, in the heart of a hostile country, frbm which, after a few... | |
 | United States, Mexico - 1848 - 396 strani
...proposes to degrade me, by requiring that I, the command of this army, shall defer to you, the chief clerk of the Department of •State, the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities." Upon this point, sir, I have to state that the order conveyed to you in the letter of the Secretary... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 412 strani
...degrade me, by requiring that I, the commander , of this army, shall defer to you, the chief clerk of the Department of State, the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities." Upon this point, sir, Q have to state that the order conveyed to you in the letter of the Secretary... | |
 | Lucien Bonaparte Chase - 1850 - 574 strani
...to degrade me, by requiring that I, the commander of this army, shall defer to you, the chief clerk of the Department of State, the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities." — Letter of General Scoll to Mr. Tris1, Tthof May, 18J5. f " You will now, sir, I trust, understand,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 846 strani
...President or myself has placed you in the condition of deferring " to the chief clerk of the Departmenc of State, the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities." I cannot conceive that any well founded exception can be taken to the order you have received, in relation to suspending hostilities;... | |
 | Jesse Siddall Reeves - 1907 - 358 strani
...proposed to degrade him by requiring that he, as commander of the army, should defer to the chief clerk of the department of state the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities.' Consequently Scott returned the sealed letter from the department of state and, as a purely military... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1910 - 688 strani
...said, proposed to degrade him by requiring the commander of the army to defer " to the chief clerk of the Department of State the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities." But he would say to Trist, and to the Secretary of War, that the question of armistice or no armistice... | |
 | George Lockhart Rives - 1913 - 766 strani
...next in rank to the chief of "our department of foreign affairs." 1 Autobiography, 576. chief clerk of the Department of State, the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities. I beg to say to him and to you, that here, in the heart of a hostile country, . . . this army must take... | |
 | Robert McNutt McElroy - 1914 - 440 strani
...to degrade me, by requiring that I, the commander of this army, shall defer to you, the chief clerk of the Department of State, the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities. . . . Armistice or no armistice is, most particularly, a military question. ..." 1 Folk's Diary, April... | |
 | 1915 - 500 strani
...proposes to degrade me, by requiring that I, commander of this army, shall defer to you, the chief clerk of the Department of State, the question of continuing or discontinuing hostilities." Trist: "You will now, Sir, I trust, understand that greatly deficient in wisdom as the present (and... | |
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