 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - 686 pages
...Vicksburg. At Cold Harbor no advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained. Indeed, the advantages other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side. Before that, the Army of Northern Virginia seemed to have acquired a wholesome regard for the courage,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1889 - 504 pages
...thousand. He says : " No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy losses we sustained. Indeed the advantages, other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side."(") Many of the Union wounded, who were lying between the opposing armies, could not be relieved. Through... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 576 pages
...was ever made. . . No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained. Indeed, the advantages, other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side. Before that the Army of Northern Virginia seemed to have acquired a wholesome regard for the courage,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 580 pages
...was ever made. ... No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained. Indeed, the advantages, other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side.' After this, he completely reversed his plan of campaign, and determined to attack Richmond and its... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 582 pages
...was ever made. . . . No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained. Indeed, the advantages, other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side.' After this, he completely reversed his plan of campaign, and determined to attack Richmond and its... | |
 | Arthur Lockwood Wagner - 1895 - 544 pages
...Harbor was ever made No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained. Indeed, the advantages, other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side. Before that, the Army of Northern Virginia seemed to have acquired a wholesome regard for the courage,,... | |
 | William Conant Church - 1897 - 586 pages
...Harbor was ever made. No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy losses sustained. Indeed, the advantages other than those of relative losses were on the Confederate side. Before that, the Army of Northern Virginia seemed to have acquired a wholesome regard for the courage,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1897 - 470 pages
...was ever made. . . . No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained. Indeed, the advantages, other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side." to change his base of supplies to James River, with a view to the capture of Petersburg and the conquest... | |
 | Daniel George Macnamara - 1899 - 568 pages
...was ever made .... No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained. Indeed, the advantages, other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side. Before that the Army of Northern Virginia seemed to have acquired a wholesome regard for the courage,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1910 - 492 pages
...was ever made. . . . No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained. Indeed, the advantages, other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side." .to change his base of supplies to James River, with a view to the capture of Petersburg and the conquest... | |
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I have always regretted that the last assault [ie, the whole battle of the third of June] was ever made. No advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss. Indeed, the advantages, other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate... 
