 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1913 - 410 strani
...brought the army to a pass so critical, he breaks out: "The Government has not sustained this army. If I save this army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." * Still more unbecoming was... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1972 - 1194 strani
...Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell yon plainly that I owe no thanks to yon or to any other persons in Washington. Yon have done your beet... | |
 | Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - 1990 - 650 strani
...force is too small.... The government must not and cannot hold me responsible for this result.... I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...the government has not sustained this army.. . . If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington.... | |
 | Byron Farwell - 1993 - 582 strani
...if it is destroyed by overwhelming numbers at least die with it and share its fate." He closed with "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army."4 Gone now was any thought of... | |
 | David Homer Bates - 1995 - 460 strani
...STANTON, Secretary of War: I now know the full history of the day ... I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks^to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 strani
...possibility of capitulation. "If I save this Army now," McClellan concluded a message to Stanton on June 28, "I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this army." These final sentences... | |
 | Michael McHugh - 1998 - 228 strani
...earnestly tonight — / have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Govt has not sustained this Army. If you do not do so now...I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this Army. Geo. B. McClellan... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - 2000 - 662 strani
...earnestly tonight — I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Govt has not sustained this Army, If you do not do so now...I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your best to sacrifice this Army.68 As a matter of... | |
 | Alan T. Nolan - 2000 - 332 strani
...understandings, to be sure, but he was also the man who, when defeated, could write to the Secretary of War: "I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...the government has not sustained this army. ... If I save this army now, I tell you plainly I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington.... | |
 | Gary W. Gallagher - 2000 - 304 strani
...Govt must not and cannot hold me responsible for defeat." He concluded with these incredible words: "If I save this army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington — you have done your g Mi('.lt'llun\ ile1 iMo,i to re treat to thr... | |
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I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. 
