 You remember my speaking to you of what I called your over-cautiousness. Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is constantly doing ? Should you not claim to be at least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim?  Major-general Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth army corps - Stran 161avtor: Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 593 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 strani
...of what I called your over-cautiousness. Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you can not do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should you...act upon the claim? As I understand, you telegraph Gen. Halleck that you can not subsist your army at Winchester unless the Railroad from Harper's Ferry... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1888 - 1312 strani
...not overcautious when you assume that yon cannot do what the enemy is constantly doing Î Should yon not claim to be at least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim Î As I understand, yon telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester,... | |
 | Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - 1994 - 278 strani
...of what I called your over-cautiousness. Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you can not do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should you not claim to be least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim? As I understand, you telegraph Gen. Halleck that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 strani
...Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you can not do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should you...least his equal in prowess and act upon the claim? Letter to General George B. McClellan, October 13, 1862, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,... | |
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 strani
...states. Lincoln, in October 1862, wrote McClellan: "Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should...be at least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim?"56 Lincoln advised cutting Lee's lines of transportation. Later that month, Lincoln noted that... | |
 | Michael McHugh - 1998 - 228 strani
...speaking to you of what I called your overcautiousness? Are you not overcautious when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should...least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim?" Notwithstanding the attempt by the President to shame the young Napoleon into action, Mac realized... | |
 | Gary W. Gallagher - 1999 - 360 strani
..."overcautiousness," the president asked: "Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you can not do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should you...least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim?" Lincoln then offered a series of observations on the military situation, each of which was designed... | |
 | Gary W. Gallagher - 2001 - 94 strani
...an exasperated Lincoln asked whether his general was 'over-cautious when you assume that you can not do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should you...least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim?' McClellan finally began crossing the Potomac on 26 October. His army took six days to make the passage... | |
 | Eugene C. Tidball - 2002 - 594 strani
...referring to their recent conversations at Sharpsburg. "Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should...least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim?" He went on to review logically a number of strategic questions and ended, "I say 'try'; if we never... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 452 strani
...that we quote the paragraphs: "Are you not overcautious [he asked McClellan], when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should...least his equal in prowess and act upon the claim?" McClellan had called for the rebuilding of the road from Harper's Ferry to Winchester, in order to... | |
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