 Gaps would enable you to attack if you should wish. For a great part of the way you would be practically between the enemy and both Washington and Richmond, enabling us to spare you the greatest number of troops from here. When, at length, running for...  Major-general Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth army corps - Stran 163avtor: Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 593 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - 1990 - 650 strani
...water-line, you are now nearer Richmond than the enemy is, by the route that you CAN and MUST take.... It is all easy if our troops march as well as the...cannot do it. This letter is in no sense an order." PART B - ESSAY QUESTIONS 1 . Discuss the United States as it existed under the Articles of Confederation.... | |
 | Isaac Newton Arnold - 1994 - 492 strani
...length, running for Richmond ahead of him, enable him to more his way; If ne does so, turn and attack htm In rear. But I think he should be engaged long before...cannot do It. This letter Is In no sense an order. "Tours truly, A. LINCOLN." 1. Report on Conduct of the War, pt. 1, p. 525. 2. Palfrey's "Antietam and... | |
 | Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - 1994 - 278 strani
...length, running for Richmond ahead of him enables him to move this way; if he does so, turn and attack in rear. But I think he should be engaged long before...as well as the enemy; and it is unmanly to say they can not do it. This letter is in no sense an order. Yours truly A. LINCOLN. This was Abraham Lincoln... | |
 | Gary W. Gallagher - 1999 - 360 strani
...of which was designed to convince the general that he could achieve something, but only if he moved. "It is all easy if our troops march as well as the enemy." concluded Lincoln, "and it is unmanly to say they can not do it."31 Although Lincoln thought it was... | |
 | Victor Brooks - 2007 - 144 strani
...and both Washington and Richmond enabling us to spare to you the greatest number of troops from here. It is all easy if our troops march as well as the enemy and it is unmanly to say they cannot do it." Lincoln was offering his general sound advice, but McClellan had already developed his own plan which,... | |
 | James V. Murfin - 2004 - 476 strani
...advantage of certain mountain passes. Then he concluded the letter by telling the general that it was all easy "if our troops march as well as the enemy; and it is unmanly to say they can not do it." 28 Lincoln was proud of this army; he had said so many times, but he saw in it something... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 strani
...circle, while yours is the chord." Consequently, "to beat him to Richmond on the inside track" should be "easy ... if our troops march as well as the enemy; and it is unmanly to say they can not do it."88 Meanwhile, on October 23, Lincoln fired Buell and replaced him with William S. Rosecrans.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 844 strani
...fifty-three. I should think it preferable to take the route nearest the enemy, disabling him to make an important move without your knowledge, and compelling...as well as the enemy; and it is unmanly to say they can not do it. This letter is in no sense an order. Yours truly To Benjamin F. Butler., George F. Shepley,... | |
 | B. Franklin Cooling - 2007 - 354 strani
...although "I think [the enemy] should be engaged long before such point is reached," Lincoln observed. "It is all easy if our troops march as well as the enemy, and it is unmanly to say they cannot do so," he chided. "This letter is in no sense an order," repeated the president, yet McClellan surely... | |
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