 | Peter Smith Michie - 1901 - 1070 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 intrenchments of Richmond.... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1905 - 934 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...he now is, we never can, he again being within the entrenchments of Richmond." But argument and expostulation were alike wasted •on McClellan. He was... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 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. [Telegram to General McClellan, Washington, 24 October 1862.] I have just read your despatch about... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 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. [Telegram to General McClellan, Washington, 24 October 1862.] I have just read your despatch about... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 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 intrenchments of Richmond.... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1904 - 534 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...he now is, we never can, he again being within the entrenchments of Richmond. Recurring to the idea of going to Richmond on the inside track, the facility... | |
 | Emory Upton - 1904 - 538 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...he now is, we never can, he again being within the entrenchments of Richmond. Recurring to the idea of going to Richmond on the inside track, the facility... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 622 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...again being within the intrenchments of Richmond." 1 McClellan complained that he could not advance because he was short of horses for his cavalry ; then... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - 1906 - 576 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...he now is, we never can, he again being within the intreuchments of Richmond. . . . When at length running for Richmond ahead of him enables him to move... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 766 strani
...McClellan thought otherwise and declined to pursue him. The President declared in a letter to McClellan, " If we cannot beat the enemy where he now is, we never can." But McClellan, as was his wont, minimized his own strength and exaggerated that of the enemy and made... | |
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In coming to us, he tenders us an 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 cannot beat the... 
