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...of July, General Pope assumed command and issued' an address to his army. In this address he said: " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an ariny whose business it has been to seek an adversary, and beat him when found ; whose policy has been...

...spent two weeks in learning your whereabouts, your condition, and your wants; in preparing you for active operations, and in placing you in positions...enemies — from an army whose business it has been to •eek the adversary, and to beat, him when found — whose policy has been attack, and not defense....

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...think that some of us were a little fearful of him for two reasons — he was cavalryman, and "had come from the west where we have always seen the backs of our enemies;" not that the east was jealous of the west, but we believed that the western rebel army was worthless,...

...spent two weeks in learning your whereabouts, your condition, and your wants, in preparing yon for active operations, and in placing you in positions...to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, whore we have always seen the backs of imr enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek...

...spent two weeks in learning your whereabouts, your condition, and your wants ; in preparing you for active operations, and in placing you in positions...from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. (j^have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army...

...who had preceded him, and boasted of what he himself intended to do. " I have come to yon," he said, "from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies—from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found."...

...spent two weeks in learning your whereabouts, your condition, and your wants ; in preparing you for active operations, and in placing you in positions...enemies— from an army whose business it has been to seek trie adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one...