 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 頁
...suggesting to you, and that in case you find Lee coming north of the Rappahannock, I would by no means cross south of it. If he should leave a rear force at Fredericksburg, tempting you to fall upon it, it would fight in iutrenchments and have you at a disadvantage, and so, man for man, worst you at that point, while his... | |
 | Charles E. Davis - 1893 - 570 頁
...worth suggesting to you, and that is, in case you find Lee coming to the north of the Rappahannock, I would by no means cross to the south of it. If he should leave a rear force at Fredcricksburg, tempting you to fall upon it, it would fight in intrenchments, and have you at a disadvantage,... | |
 | James Henry Stine - 1893 - 916 頁
...Lee's forces and Washington. So Lincoln wrote one of his laconic letters to Hooker. He said : If Lee should leave a rear force at Fredericksburg-, tempting you to fall upon it, he would fight you in intrenchments, and have you at a disadvantage, and so, nfan for man, worst you... | |
 | Charles E. Davis - 1894 - 566 頁
...worth suggesting to you, and that is, in case you find Lee coming to the north of the Rappahannock, I would by no means cross to the south of it. If he...it, it would fight in intrenchments, and have you at a disadvantage, and so, man for man, worst you at that point, while his main force would in some way... | |
 | 1895 - 630 頁
...which was Lee's rear, because the enemy would be in intrenchments, and, to use Lincoln's language, " so man for man worst you at that point, while his...some way, be getting an advantage of you northward." He added : " In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river like an ox jumped... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1899 - 912 頁
...you," Lincoln replied, " and that is, in case you find Lee coming to the north of the Rappahannock I would by no means cross to the south of it. If he...disadvantage, and so, man for man, worst you at that point, \vhile his main force would in some way be getting an advantage of you northward. In one word, I would... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 618 頁
...to you," Lincoln replied, "and that is, in case you find Lee coming to the north of the Rappahannock I would by no means cross to the south of it. If he...Fredericksburg, tempting you to fall upon it, it would fight in intrenchmente and have you at disadvantage, and so, man for man, worst you at that point, while his... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 頁
...Confederate rear at Fredericksburg, but Lincoln, who was afraid of this plan, made a famous comment: — " If he should leave a rear force at Fredericksburg,...fall upon it, it would fight in intrenchments and have-you at disadvantage, and so, man for man, worst you at that point, while his main force would... | |
 | Joseph Warren Keifer - 1900 - 438 頁
...worth suggesting to you, and that is, in case you find Lee coming to the north of the Rappahannock, I would by no means cross to the south of it. If he...while his main force would in some way be getting the advantage of you northward. In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 頁
...To this Lincoln answered in quaint satire, " In case you find Lee coming north of the Rappahannock I would by no means cross to the south of it. If he...Fredericksburg, tempting you to fall upon it, it would fight you in entrenchments and have you at a disadvantage, while his main force would in some way be getting... | |
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Fredericksburg, tempting you to fall upon it, it would fight in intrenchments and have you at disadvantage, and so, man for man, worst you at that point, while his main force would in some way be getting an advantage of you northward. In one word, I would... 
