...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." It has already been mentioned that General Rosecrans, after winning the battle of Murfreesboro at the...

...severed his communication and marched east from the Mississippi river, that it was a mistake and added: "I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." I need not dwell upon the sacrifices Iowa made in that war. With only 670,000 people, it furnished...

...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. [Letter to General Meade after the battle of Gettysburg, Washington, 14 July 1863. Never signed or...

...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. [Letter to General Meade after the battle of Gettysburg, Washington, 14 July 1863. Never signed or...

...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. CHAPTER XVII. 1863. Gettysburg. In less than a month after his victory at Chancellorsville, General...

...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. 1 From the first days of the war Lincoln had been trying to find among...

...remember that you and I ever met personally," he wrote. "I write this now as a grateful acknowledgement for the almost inestimable service you have done the...it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgement that you were right and I was wrong." Other important battles won by Grant that same...

...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 27, 1863. See BURNSIDE, AMBROSE E.] Executive Mansion, Washington,...

...ending with a generous confession of his own erroneous views as to Grant's actions, and the sentence, " I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." Vicksburg was the key to the Mississippi River, and a few days later this was once more an open highway...

...should go down the river and join General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. "I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. " A USELESS DOG frontier settlements in which he lived in his youth. "The dog," he said, "was the terror...