 | Linus Pierpont Brockett - 1866 - 316 pages
...States sent the following dispatch to General Grant : WASHINGTON, DEC. 8, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL GRANT: Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and...which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object. God bless you all! A. LINCOLN. On the 10th of December, General Grant... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1866 - 728 pages
...open. President Lincoln wrote thus to Grant : " WASHINGTON, December 8th. " Major- General Grant: " Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and...which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object. God bless you all ! "A LINCOLN." Here, as elsewhere in the battle-fields... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1866 - 794 pages
...also sent a dispatch to Major-General Grant :— WASHIEOTON, December 8. Major-General GRANT: '>• Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and...all under your command my more than thanks — my profonndest gratitnde for the skill, courage, and perseverance with which you and they, over so great... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 586 pages
...the regiments in his army. It was as follows : WASHINGTON, December 8, 1868. MAJOR-GENERAI, GRANT: Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and...Knoxville is now secure, I wish to tender you, and all aider your command, my more than thanks—my profoundest gratitude—for the skill, courage, and perseverance... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1893 - 638 pages
...made. No wonder after all this was accomplished that Mr. Lincoln telegraphed: " I wish to tender to you and all under your command my more than thanks...gratitude for the skill, courage and perseverance which you and they have displayed. God bless you all." Tenacity and confidence were exhibited in striking... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 386 pages
...which Grant embodied in orders to the army: " WASHINGTON, December 8, 1863. "MAJOR-GENERAL GRANT: " Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and...which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object. God bless you all ! "A. LINCOLN." December 1 7th, a joint resolution... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Reconstruction - 1868 - 796 pages
...Lincoln the following despatch : — . . WAsnnroroK, December 8, 1863. ' " MAJOR- GENERAL GRANT, — Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and...which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object. God bless you all ! " A. LINCOLN." In addition to this, Congress, by... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...the regiments in his army. It was as follows : WASHINGTON, December 8, 1863. MAJOK-GENETUI, GRANT: Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and...which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important abject. God bless you all I A. LINCOLN. PUBLIC HONOBS. The Congress of the... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Reconstruction - 1868 - 774 pages
...President Lincoln the following despatch : — " WASHINGTON, December 8, 1863. ' " MAJOR-GENERAL GRANT, — Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and...which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object. God bless you all ! " A. LINCOLN." In addition to this, Congress, by... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...telegraphed to Grant with unusual warmth : — "Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and at Knoxville is now secure, I wish to tender you, and...which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object! God bless you all!" Halleck pronounced Chattanooga " the most remarkable... | |
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GRANT: Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and Knoxville is now secure, I wish to tender you, and all under your command, my more than thanks — my profoundest gratitude for the skill, courage, and perseverance with which you and they, over... 
