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" South were nearing exhaustion and that the forces of the North could certainly wear out Lee's dwindling army even if they could not beat it. The trumpet gave no uncertain sound from Lincoln's lips. "In this purpose to save the country and its liberties... "
Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray - Page 160
by William Wood - 1921 - 424 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...orders about " driving the invader from our soil." " Will our generals," he exclaimed in private, " never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil." Meade, however, unlike McClellan, was only cautious, not lukewarm, nor without a mind of his own. The...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 7

John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 554 pages
...moved him to claim a great victory because ' Pennsylvania and Maryland were safe.' Will our generals never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil." He regretted that he had not himself gone to the army and personally issued the order for an attack. The...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 7

John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 548 pages
...moved him to claim a great victory because ' Pennsylvania and Maryland were safe.' Will our generals never get that idea out of their heads ? The whole country is our soil." He regretted that he had not himself gone to the army and personally issued the order for an attack. The...
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McClure's Magazine, Volume 4

1895 - 630 pages
...Mr. Hay's diary Lincoln is quoted as saying, upon the receipt of this despatch : " Will our generals never get that idea out of their heads ? The whole country is our soil." His theory of the war was that the enemy could be fought much more advantageously on Northern soil...
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History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution, Volume 6

James Schouler - 1899 - 870 pages
...driving the invader from our soil " as the supreme effort requisite. " Will our generals," he inquired, " never get that idea out of their heads ? The whole country is our soil." And he regretted that he had not himself gone to the front and issued personally an order to attack...
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: 1862-1864

James Ford Rhodes - 1899 - 594 pages
...moved him to claim a great victory because Pennsylvania and Maryland were safe. "Will our generals never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil." —John Hay's diary, Nicolay and Hay, vol. vii. p. 27S. - OR, vol. xxvii. part iii. p. 567. 3 July...
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1861-1865. The civil war

James Schouler - 1899 - 686 pages
...driving the invader from our soil " as the supreme effort requisite. " Will our generals," he inquired, " never get that idea out of their heads ? The whole country is our soil." And he regretted that he had not himself gone to the front and issued personally an order to attack...
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final ...

James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 622 pages
...that moved him to claim a great victory because Pennsylvania and Maryland were safe. Will our generals never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil." — John Hay's diary, Nicolay and Hay, vol. vii. p. 278. • OR, vol. xxvii. part iii. p. 567. « July...
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Gettysburg and Lincoln: The Battle, the Cemetery, and the National Park

Henry Sweetser Burrage - 1906 - 306 pages
...wounded, which were literally emptied out of his wagons into farmhouses and barns in his hasty retreat." that idea out of their heads ? The whole country is our soil. " J Early in the morning of July 5th, Meade discovered that Lee had withdrawn. In a despatch to Halleck...
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A.D. 1830

Ester Singleton - 1908 - 598 pages
..."driving the invader from our soil" as the supreme effort requisite. "Will our generals," he inquired, "never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil." And he regretted that he had not himself gone to the front and issued personally an order to attack...
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