 IT is with heartfelt satisfaction the Commanding General announces to the Army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground,...  Army of Northern Virginia Memorial Volume - Page 278by John William Jones - 1879 - 347 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1914 - 1066 pages
...confidence which would burst from lips not tutored to keep still. 'The finest army on the planet.' 'The operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or give us battle on our own ground where certain destruction awaits him.' 'My plans are perfect, and... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 842 pages
...he said in his order, April 30, "with feelings of heartfelt satisfaction that the Commanding General announces to the army that the operations of the last three days have determined that the enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1863 - 882 pages
...sharp skirmishes took place at different points. On the 30th General Hooker issned an order aunouncing that " the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either mgloriously fly, or come out and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1863 - 324 pages
...according to the order he issued on Thursday, the 30th of April, had rendered it necessary that " the enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defences and give us (the Yankee army) battle on our own ground, where certain destruction waits him." In the meantime,... | |
 | David Wright Judd - 1864 - 446 pages
...POTOMAC, ) NEAR FALMOUTH, APRIL 30, 1863. j It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the General Commanding announces to the army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind their defences and give us battle on our own ground, where... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1864 - 414 pages
...order he issued on Thursday the 30th of April, had rendered it necessary that "the enemy must cither ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences and give us (the Yankee army) battle on our own ground, where certain destruction waits him." In the mean time,... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 pages
..."NEAR FALMOUTH, VA., April 30, 1863. J "It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the General Commanding repulso »n attack. I regret my great inferiority of numbers, but feel that I am in no way responsi ¡notoriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1865 - 1244 pages
...FALMOUTH, VIRGINIA, " April 30, 1863. "It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the general commanding announces to the army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind their defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - 1865 - 886 pages
...ЗОИ, 1803. \ It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the Commanding (ieneral announces to the armythat the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either inglonously fly or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 944 pages
...VA., April 30, 1863. j я with heartfelt satisfaction that the General Commanding announces to the tat the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must usly fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own where certain destruction... | |
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