| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 頁
...Government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. " I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." Three days later (July 1st)... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 頁
...Government must not and cannot h'old me responsible for the result. " I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...this army. If you do not do so now the game is lost. PRELIMINARY TO EMANCIPATION. Three days later (July 1st) McClellan telegraphed : " I need fifty thousand... | |
| Donn Piatt - 1893 - 700 頁
...the Secretary of War in the following words, which give the true measure of the man. They read : " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army." It was the belief... | |
| James Penny Boyd - 1893 - 728 頁
...was lying at Harrison's Landing, General McClellan telegraphed to the Secretary of War : " If I nave 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." It is an old maxim, fellow-citizens,... | |
| Samuel Giles Buckingham - 1894 - 574 頁
...government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other person in Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army."— [Greeiey, p. 158. And this... | |
| Samuel Giles Buckingham - 1894 - 574 頁
...government must not and cannot hold me responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this ;irmy now, I tall you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other person in Washington. You... | |
| Samuel Giles Buckingham - 1894 - 572 頁
...cannot hold mo responsible for the result. I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many doad and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this array. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that... | |
| 1895 - 578 頁
...despatch to Stanton, he exhibited the deep chagrin and unhappiness which he felt in these words: " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons iu Washington; you have doneyour best tosacrifice this army." He had fought the battle of Gaines's... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 594 頁
...men. ... I have lost this battle because my force was too small. ... I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel...I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or 1 My authorities for this account are: the correspondence, OR, vol. xi. parts i. and iii.; McClellan's... | |
| James Schouler - 1899 - 870 頁
...addressed to Secretary Stanton, which charged that the Government had withheld from him reenforcements. " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I...Washington. You have done your best to sacrifice this army."1 No President but Lincoln would have tolerated such insulting language, which was evidently... | |
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