| John Bach McMaster - 1927 - 738 strani
...opportunity presents and at least try to beat him to Richmond on the inside track? If we cannot heat the enemy where he now is, we never can, he again being within the intrenchments of Richmond." * But McClellan would not move and five weeks after the battle of Antietam the army was still in camp.... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1924 - 652 strani
...advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere or fail finally, we can do it, if at...again being within the . intrenchments of Richmond. . . ." This patient, sensible letter had no effect on McClellan. Now, forbearing as Lincoln was as... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1924 - 320 strani
...advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere or fail finally, we can do it, if at...again being within the intrenchments of Richmond. . . ." This patient, sensible letter had no effect on McClellan. Now, forbearing as Lincoln was as... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 strani
...advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us, than far away. If we can not beat the enemy where he now is, we never can, he again being within the entrenchments of Richmond.... | |
| Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - 1991 - 788 strani
...intrenchments, the President emphasized: Not only is beating Lee "easier near to us than far away," but "if we cannot beat the enemy where he now is, we never can, he being within the entrenchments of Richmond." Thus did Lincoln in a letter to McClellan analyze the... | |
| United States. War Department - 1888 - 1312 strani
...advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at...supplying from the side away from the enemy is remarkable, us it were, by the different spokes of a wheel extending from the hub toward the rim, and this, whether... | |
| Isaac Newton Arnold - 1994 - 492 strani
...waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fall finally, we can do It, If at all, easier near to us...going to Richmond on the Inside track, the facility for supplying from the side away from the enemy. Is remarkable, as It were by the different spokes... | |
| Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - 1994 - 278 strani
...advantage which we should not waive. We should not operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us, than far away. If we can not beat the enemy where he now is, we never can, he again being within the entrenchments of Richmond... | |
| Herman Hattaway - 2004 - 272 strani
...president emphasized that not only was beating the enemy "easier near to us than far away," but also "if we cannot beat the enemy where he now is, we never can, he being within the entrenchments of Richmond." Thus did Lincoln analyze the problem posed by the welldemonstrated... | |
| Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 452 strani
...we shall never succeed. . . . We should not so operate as merely to drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at...away. If we cannot beat the enemy where he now is [at or about Winchester], we never can, he again being within the intrenchments of Richmond." This... | |
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