 I regret my great inferiority in numbers, but feel that I am in no way responsible for it, as I have not failed to represent repeatedly the necessity of reinforcements, that this was the decisive point, and that all the available means of the Government...  General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865 - Page 71by Walter Herron Taylor - 1906 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1863 - 778 pages
...the government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splen did army I have the honor to command ; and if it is destroyed...its fate. But if the result of the action which will occur to-morrow, or within a short time, is a disaster, the responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders... | |
 | United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...the decisive point, and that all the available means of the government should be concentrated here. I will do all' that a general can do with the splendid...the responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders ; it must rest where it belongs. " Since I commenced this I have received additional intelligence confirming... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...and, although point, and that all the available means of the Government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do with the splendid...the responsibility cannot be thrown on my shoulders ; it must rest where it belongs. Since ] commenced this, I have received additional intelligence, confirming... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...the decisive point, and that all the available means of the Government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splendid...a disaster, the responsibility cannot be thrown on tny shoulders: it must rest where it belongs. Since I commenced this, I have received additional intelligence,... | |
 | George Brinton MACCLELLAN (General.) - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 676 pages
...the decisive point, and that all the available means of the government, should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do, with the splendid...within a short time, is a disaster, the responsibility can not be thrown on my shoulders, it must rest where it belongs. Since I commenced this, I have received... | |
 | David Wright Judd - United States - 1864 - 446 pages
...necessity of reinforcements ; that this was the decisive point, and that all should be concentrated here. I will do all that a General can do, with the splendid...numbers, can at least die with it and share its fate I shall probably be attacked to-morrow, and now go to the other side of the Chickahominy to arrange... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...the decisive point, and that all the available means of the government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splendid...overwhelming numbers, can at least die with it and share ita fate. But if the result of the action which will probably occur to-morrow, or within a short time,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...the decisive point, and that all the available means of the Government should be concentrated here. I will do all that a general can do with the splendid...if it is destroyed by overwhelming numbers, can at leapt die with it and share its fate. But if the result of the action which will probably occur to-morrow,... | |
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