 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 770 pages
...to Richmond on the inside track. I say ' try ; ' if we never try, we shall never succeed. If he make a stand at Winchester, moving neither north nor south,...Richmond. " Recurring to the idea of going to Richmond pn the inside track, the facility of supplying from the side away from the enemy, is remarkable, as... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1863 - 766 pages
...should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away. If we cannot beat the enemy where lie now is, we never can, he again being within the intrenchments of Richmond. "Recurring to the idea... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1864 - 96 pages
...should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far...the inside track, the facility of supplying from the side-way from the enemy is remarkable, as it were, by the different spokes of a wheel, extending from... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 pages
...should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away. If we cannot beat the enemy where he now'is, we never can, he again being within the intrenchments of Richmond. Recurring to the idea of... | |
 | Edwin Winchester Stone - 1864 - 448 pages
...order, that the army should " cross the Potomac below instead of above the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge." " Recurring to the idea of going to Richmond on the...inside track, the facility of supplying from the side way from the enemy," he considered remarkable. " I should think it preferable," he added, " to take... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 324 pages
...immortality. " As we must beat him somewhere or fail finally," said his excellency, speaking of General Lee, "we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away." The results of General Pope's experience at " beating the enemy near to" Washington, recent as they... | |
 | William Henry Hurlbert - 1864 - 344 pages
...immortality. " As we must beat him somewhere or fail finally," said his excellency, speaking of General Lee, " we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away." The results of General Pope's experience at " beating the enemy near to" Washington, recent as they... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1861 - 852 pages
...should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far...again being within the intrenchments of Richmond."* The arguments of the President proved so much in accordance with the necessities of the position, that... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 pages
...should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him some where, or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far...never can, he again being within the intrenchments at Richmond. " Recurring to the idea of going to Richmond on the inside track, the facility of supplying... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1885 - 316 pages
...should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far...he now is, we never can, he again being within the intrenchnients of Richmond. Recurring to the idea of going to Richmond on the inside track, the facility... | |
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In coming to us, he tenders us an advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail fmally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away. 
