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" I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. "
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Abraham Lincoln

Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...should go down the river and join General Banks. When you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." "I guess," said the President to a friend, "I was right in standing by Grant, although there was a...
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Abraham Lincoln

Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...should go down the river and join General Banks. When you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." "I guess," said the President to a friend,"! was right in standing by Grant, although there was a great...
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Abraham Lincoln

Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...should go dowu the river and join General Banks. When you turned northward, cast of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." " I guess," said the President to a friend, " I was right in standing by Grant, although there was...
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volume 64

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 268 pages
...should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. Letter to Moulton. Washington. July 31, 1863 My dear Sir, There has been...
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 2

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 pages
...should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. July 13, 1863.— TELEGRAM TO HT BLOW. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, July...
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. Letter to Moulton. Washington. July 31, 1863 My dear Sir, There has been...
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Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery

Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...the river and join General Banks ; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I thought it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." The battle of Gettysburg was brought on by Lee's attempt to carry the war, as had been often threatened...
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McClure's Magazine, Volume 4

1895 - 630 pages
...thanks to Grant he told him that he believed that Grant should have moved differently, but added : "I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Early in the year 1864 Lincoln directed the movement into Florida, which resulted in the disastrous...
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General Grant

James Grant Wilson - 1897 - 450 pages
...should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. A. LINCOLN. An officer of the army received a note from General Grant, written on the day he entered...
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The Words of Abraham Lincoln, for Use in Schools

Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. LETTER TO GEN. US GRANT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, April 30, 1864. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL...
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