 | American essays - 1914 - 1066 pages
...addressed probably the most impertinent sentence ever written by a soldier to his military superior. 'If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.' But the same bitterness was manifested toward men much less deserving of it than the commander-in-chief... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...in regarding me as ungenerous when I said that my force was too weak." He concluded: " If I save the army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you nor to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Stanton still... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.l It is probable that no other... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 498 pages
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN, Major-General. To HON. EM STANTON, Secretary of War. The head-quarters' camp, at Savage's... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...otherwise than that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN. Hon. EM STANTON. Further communication with this officer was interrupted until, after... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 280 pages
...than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I..." You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN". "Hon. EM STANTON." The headquarters camp at Savage's station was broken up early on... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 406 pages
...28th, in the bitterness of his soul, he had said, in a telegraphic message to the Secretary of War, "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That army he had saved; and the army was conscious of it. But there was nothing of triumph in his own... | |
 | United States. War Department - United States - 1864 - 256 pages
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained thia army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that...Washington. "You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN. "Hon. EM STANTON." The headquarters camp at Savage's station was broken up early on... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - 1864 - 574 pages
...otherwise — that the Government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." The day dawned hot and cheerless to the Army of the Potomac. No sound of a hostile gun disturbed the... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 256 pages
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. "If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that..." You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLELLAN. "Hon. EM STANTON." The headquarters camp at Savage's station was broken up early on... | |
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If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army. 
