 McClellan to prepare myself with three days' rations and the usual amount of ammunition, and to be ready to march at 2 o'clock on Monday. This order was communicated to the whole army, and I firmly believe that order meant Richmond. I had said to General...  In Memoriam, Major-General Joseph Hooker - Page 7by Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 22 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1889 - 1060 pages
...o'clock the next day. " I firmly believe," said Hooker, " that order meant Richmond. I had said to McClellan that if we were unsuccessful it would probably...might as well die for an old sheep as for a lamb. But before the time arrived for executing that order it was countermanded." [Hooker, Testimony, Report... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 766 pages
...order was communicated to the whole army, and I firmly believe that order meant Richmond. I had said to General McClellan that if we were unsuccessful it...well die for an old sheep as for a lamb. I told him that I knew of no better place to put an army than between Johnson — who was at that time in Pope's... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1863 - 778 pages
...order was communicated to the whole army, and I firmly believe that order meant Richmond. I had said to General McClellan that if we were unsuccessful it...well die for an old sheep as for a lamb. I told him that I knew of no better place to put an army than between Johnson — who was at that time in Pope's... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 770 pages
...was communicated to the whole army, and I firmly believe, that order meant Richmond. I had said to General McClellan that if we were unsuccessful it...well die for an old sheep as for a lamb. I told him that I knew of no better, place to put an army than between Johnson-1— who was at that time in Pope's... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Richard M. Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1872 - 650 pages
...of the Dispatch past forgiveness already, and as I remember the equally so-sinning proverb " you had as well die for an old sheep as for a lamb," I will fill up the measure of my errors by confessing that I consider the phrase which the Dispatch quotes... | |
 | 1889 - 1016 pages
...o'clock the next day. " I firmly believe," said Hooker, " that order meant Richmond. I had said to McClellan that if we were unsuccessful it would probably...might as well die for an old sheep as for a lamb. But before the time arrived for executing that order it was countermanded." [Hooker, Testimony, Report... | |
 | Walter H. Hebert - 1999 - 396 pages
...Richmond with the force then on hand; if he were unsuccessful it would probably cost him his head, but he "might as well die for an old sheep as for a lamb." By Hooker's account an order was issued to the entire army to be ready to move at two the next afternoon... | |
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