| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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