 | Loomis T. Palmer - 1885 - 788 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 acknowledgement that you were riff ht and I was -wrong Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. GENERAL... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1885 - 472 strani
...and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew bet ter than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you...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. Abraham... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 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." The grade of major-general in the regular... | |
 | 1885 - 108 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...turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was & mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you -were right and I was wrong." RESULTS... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 936 strani
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. . . . When you got below Vicksburg and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong ;" and Halleck, who had all along disapproved... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 752 strani
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. . . . When you got below Vicksburg and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong;" and Halleck, who had all along disapproved... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1885 - 482 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...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 were right and i... | |
 | Adam Badeau - 1885 - 722 strani
...wrote, after all was over : " When you got below, and took Port' Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinit}', I thought you should go down the river and join General...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake." * This disapprobation was not confined to the President. When Grant's plan of campaign was indicated,... | |
 | 1885 - 504 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 Fort Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks;... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1886 - 528 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...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, " A. LINCOLN." And yet, Grant's MODESTY never surrendered. It was a tremendous bombardment... | |
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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... 
