 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 508 strani
...reinforcements. I thought you were ungenerous in assuming that I did not send them as fast as I could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as...feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle or repulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy not being in Washington. We protected Washington and... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 686 strani
...is the price we pay for the enemy not being in Washington. We protected 140 McCLELLAN AND LEE [1862 Washington and the enemy concentrated on you. Had...Washington he would have been upon us before the troops could have gotten to you. ... It is the nature of the case and neither you nor the government are to... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 494 strani
...reinforcements. I thought you were ungenerous in assuming that I did not send them as fast as I could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have haoVa drawn battle or repulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy not being in Washington. We protected... | |
 | Emory Upton, United States. War Department - 1917 - 546 strani
...were ungenerous in assuming that I did not send them as fast as I could. I feel any misfortune to vou and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn tattle or a repulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy not being in Washington. We protected Washington,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 524 strani
...reinforcements. I thought you were ungenerous in assuming that I did not send them as fast as I could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as...battle, or a repulse, it is the price we pay for the ehemy not being in Washington. We protected Washington, and the enemy concentrated on you. Had we stripped... | |
 | Samuel Eliot Morison - 1927 - 562 strani
...to sacrifice this army.' To which Lincoln replied : ' Save your army, at all events. ... I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as...protected Washington, and the enemy concentrated on you . . . neither you nor the government is to blame.' 1 On the night of 27-28 June McClellan withdrew... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 518 strani
...reinforcements. I thought you were ungenerous in assuming that I did not send them as fast as I could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as...feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle or repulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy not being in Washington. We protected Washington and... | |
 | Richard N. Current - 1958 - 326 strani
...protected Washington and the enemy concentrated on you," he said in a consoling message to McClellan. "Had we stripped Washington he would have been upon...us before the troops sent could have got to you." And yet, as these words showed, Lincoln still had failed to grasp the essentials of the situation.... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - 1991 - 788 strani
...Richmond as his own force amounts to." During the Seven Days' Battles, Lincoln had written McClellan: "We protected Washington and the enemy concentrated...upon us before the troops sent could have got to you. ... It is the nature of the case." Lincoln certainly weleomed Halleck's recommendation to eliminate... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1972 - 774 strani
...re-enforcements. I thought you were ungenerous in assuming that 1 did not send them as fast as I could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as...We protected Washington and the enemy concentrated 011 you. Had we stripped Washington, he would have been upon us before the troops could have gotten... | |
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I thought you were ungenerous in assuming that I did not send them as fast as I could. I feel any misfortune to you and your army quite as keenly as you feel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle, or a repulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy... 
