 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1865 - 854 pages
...If they could hold out a few days, could you help them ? If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere : could you not break him ? A. LINCOLN. Sent 5.50 pm [Received 9 pm, June 14.]... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1865 - 874 pages
...If they could hold out a few days, could you help them ? If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsturg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere : could you not break him ? A. LINCOLN. Sent 5.50 pm [Received 9 pm, June 14.]... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1869 - 546 pages
...as amusing and as jndicions. "If the head of Lee's urmy is at Martinsburg," Lincoln -wrote Hooker, " and the tail of it on the Plank road, between Fredericksburg and Chaurellorsville, the animal must be rery slim someinhere—could you not break him ?" Hnt Hooker could... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1870 - 360 pages
...mingled with a sort of grotesque humor : " If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg," wrote Lincoln, " and the tail of it on the Plank Road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorville, the animal must be very slim somewhere — could you not break him? "A. LINCOLN."... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1871 - 690 pages
...Rappahannock, the President wrote to General Hooker : " If the head of ffeds army is at Martinsburg, and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere — could you not break him f " General Hooker did not seem to be able to determine... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1871 - 684 pages
...Rappahannock, the President wrote to General Hooker : " If the Jiead of Lee's army is at Martinsburg, and tJte tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must le very slim somewhere — could you not break him ? " General Hooker did not seem to be able to determine... | |
 | Edward Lee Childe - 1875 - 366 pages
...president wrote to General Hooker in his figurative style : " If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg, and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere, — could you not break him ?" It has been suggested that Lee's temerity came... | |
 | Edward Lee Childe - 1875 - 394 pages
...president wrote to General Hooker in his figurative style : " If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg, and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere,—could you not break him ?" It has been suggested that Lee's temerity came from... | |
 | Charles H. Banes - 1876 - 326 pages
...information of Lee's movement, the President again replied : " If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere ; could you not break him ? "A. LINCOLN." — » The uncertainty dispelled, Hooker... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1876 - 648 pages
...Rappahannock, the President wrote to General Hooker : "If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg^ and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must l)e very slim somewhere — could you not break him ? " General Hooker did not seem to be able to determine... | |
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If the head of Lee's army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the animal must be very slim somewhere. Could you not break him? 
