 | Earl Schenck Miers, Richard A. Brown - 1996 - 276 páginas
...obeying this order—an order totally unexpected and unsolicited—I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this Army to relieve it from...involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an allcontrolling Providence the decision of the contest. It is with just diffidence that... | |
 | Duane P. Schultz - 2002 - 486 páginas
...accepting command, Meade was equally effusive in praising Hooker. Then he spoke of the ordeal ahead. The country looks to this army to relieve it from...involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest. GEORGE MEADE LOOKED older than... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 páginas
...this order — an order totally unexpected and unsolicited, I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from...the devastation and disgrace of a hostile invasion. ... let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to all controlling providence the decision of the... | |
 | Edward J. Hagerty - 2005 - 380 páginas
...the gravity of the events about to unfold, and he cautioned his troops to bear that urgency in mind. "Let us have in view constantly the magnitude of the...involved and let each man determine to do his duty," he wrote. There were no grandiose musings about great victories in his order: simply a grim recognition... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1885 - 1152 páginas
...obeying this order, an order totally unexpected and unsolicited, I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from...involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an allcontrolling Providence the decision of the contest.- It is with just diffidence that... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1861 - 668 páginas
...obeying this order, an order totally unexpected and unsolicited, I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from...involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest. It is with just diffidence that... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1866 - 828 páginas
...obeying this order, an order totally unexpected and unsolicited, I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from...involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest. It is with just diffidence that... | |
 | 1891 - 1284 páginas
...this order—an order totally unexpected and unsolicited—I have 110 promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from...involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest. It is with just diffidence that... | |
 | 1891 - 1270 páginas
...this order — an order totally unexpected and unsolicited — I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from...devastation and disgrace of a hostile invasion. Whatever f atigues and sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo, let us have in view constantly the magnitude... | |
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By direction of the President of the United States, I hereby assume command of the Army of the Potomac. As a soldier, in obeying this order — an order totally unexpected and unsolicited — I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to... 
