 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1866 - 688 strani
...succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Great Gulf, and the vicinity, I thought you should g<? down the river and join General Banks ; and when you...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a perlonal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong Yours very truly, (Signed) A. LINCOLN.... | |
 | John Beauchamp Jones - 1866 - 494 strani
...; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got...took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought yon should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1866 - 662 strani
...below, and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Great Gulf, and the vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks ; and when... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 804 strani
...the river and join General Banks ; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I thought it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment, that you was right anil I was wrong." No military enterprise recorded in history presented greater difficulties... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - 1868 - 644 strani
...hope that you knew hotter than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition mid the like could succeed. AVhen you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. " Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN." Halleck, stirred to unwonted enthusiasm, also wrote : — " In boldness... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1868 - 494 strani
...; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment tJiat you were right and I wag wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Congratulations... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1868 - 1134 strani
...below, and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Rarely as such words have reached a... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - 1868 - 456 strani
...; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, '•A. LINCOLN." Grant... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1868 - 386 strani
...; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." Halleck also was liberal in his praise... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1868 - 670 strani
...below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to mnke a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. CHAPTER... | |
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When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did— march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew... 
