 | 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 I owe no thanks to you or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army.' But the same bitterness... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - Maryland Campaign, 1862 - 1864 - 150 pages
...than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. u If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. 44 You have done your best to sacrifice this army. "GB McCLKLLAN,... | |
 | 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 owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN. Hon.... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - History - 1864 - 324 pages
...otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so 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." Stern and terrible... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 426 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 I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." That army he had... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pages
...McClellan wrote the following sentences at the end of an official communication addressed to the latter : " 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." (28th June, 1862.)... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...subordinate was ever before permitted to say to his superior officer without instant dismissal — " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington : you have done your best to sacrifice this army." To this dispatch the... | |
 | 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 owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army. GB McCLELLAN, Major-General.... | |
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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. 
