| Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - 1908 - 400 páginas
...should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN The evacuation of Richmond as a woman saw it ^> (To Mrs. Roger A. Pryor)... | |
| Francis Grant Blair - 1908 - 80 páginas
...ild go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, THE WOMEN. A. LINCOLN. I am not accustomed to the use of language of eulogy; I have... | |
| James Morgan - 1908 - 510 páginas
...he admitted that he had feared it was a mistake. "I now wish," Lincoln generously concluded, "to 349 make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." It was in the course of this movement that Sherman developed as Grant's great lieutenant, protesting... | |
| 1909 - 680 páginas
...should go down the river and join Gen. Banks, and when you turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong. Yours very truly A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION ELIZA P. GURNEY. WASHINGTON September 4, 1864. My esteemed... | |
| Margaret Ashmun - 1910 - 320 páginas
...should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. WASHINGTON IRVING WRITES OF HIS VISIT TO SIR WALTER SCOTT (To Peter Irving)... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 170 páginas
...should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly A.'LlNCOLN LETTER STATING HIS POSITION IN REGARD TO THE WAR AND TO EMANCIPATION Executive... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 190 páginas
...go down the river and 10 join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, '5 A. LINCOLN. AUGUST 17, 1863. — LETTER TO JH HACKETT EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON,... | |
| Helen Nicolay - 1912 - 460 páginas
...should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." The President knew that a change in 254 commanders always involved more than the mere risk of " swapping... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1913 - 660 páginas
...should go down the river, and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. An officer who was the first from Grant's army to reach Washington after the... | |
| John Codman Ropes - 1913 - 326 páginas
...should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. On the 1st of August, * when Halleck received Grant's report, he wrote: In boldness of plan, rapidity... | |
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