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