 | United States. President - United States - 1866 - 722 pages
...wary ever after of taking the, offensive. His losses in men were probably not so groat, owing to the fact that we were, save in the Wilderness, almost...party, and when he did attack, it was in the open iiclcl." Although expectations of destroying Lee's army, and the speedy capture of Richmond and Petersburg,... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1866 - 920 pages
...wary ever after of taking the offensive. His losses in men were probably not »o great, owing to the fact that we were, save in the Wilderness, almost...attacking party; and when he did attack it was in tho open field. The details of these battles, which for endurance and bravery on the part of the soldiery... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 842 pages
...wary ever after of taking the offensive. His losses in men were probably not so great, owing to the fact that we were, save in the Wilderness, almost...During the campaign of forty-three days, from the Rapidan to the James river, the army had to be snpplied from an ever-shifting base, by wagons, over... | |
 | Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 pages
...wary ever after of taking the offensive. His losses in men were probably not so great, owing to the fact that we were, save in the Wilderness, almost...rarely been surpassed, are given in the report of Major General Meadc, and the subordinate reports accompanying it. During the campaign oi forty-three... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...wary ever after of taking the offensive. His losses in men were probably not so great, owing to the fact that we were, save in the Wilderness, almost invariably the attacking party ; and when ho did attack it was in the open field. The details of these battles, which, for endurance and bravery... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...wary ever after of taking the offensive. His losses in men were probably not so great, owing to the fact that we were, save in the Wilderness, almost invariably the attacking party ; and when ho did attack it was in the open field. The details of these battles, which, for endurance and bravery... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - United States - 1879 - 290 pages
...wary ever after of taking the offensive. His losses in men were probably not so great, owing to the fact that we were, save in the Wilderness, almost...Meade, and the subordinate reports accompanying it. — Gen. Grant. 12 We cannot copy from General Meade's reports, though the boys read them with eager... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 686 pages
...wary ever after of taking the offensive. His losses in men were probably not so great, owing to the fact that we were, save in the Wilderness, almost...During the campaign of forty-three days, from the Rapidan to the James River, the army had to be supplied from an evershifting base, by wagons, over... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Generals - 1885 - 668 pages
...wary ever after of taking the offensive. His losses in men were probably not so great, owing to the fact that we were, save in the Wilderness, almost...During the campaign of forty-three days, from the Rapidan to the James River, the army had to be supplied from an evershifting base, by wagons, over... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 764 pages
...wary ever after of taking the offensive. His losses in men were probably not so great, owing to the fact that we were, save in the Wilderness, almost...endurance and bravery on the part of the soldiery had rarely been surpassed, are given in the reports of Major-General Meade, and the subordinate reports... | |
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... fighting. The battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna and Cold Harbor, bloody and terrible as they were on our side, were even more damaging to the enemy, and so crippled him as to make him wary ever after of taking the offensive. His... 
