 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...front of Washington. It was an unfortunate announcement which Pope made. " I have come," he said, " from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." The officers and men thought he was making unjust comparison between the soldiers of the East and those... | |
 | Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Ohio Commandery - 1896 - 488 pages
...inspiriting his own little force and impressing the enemy, he published an order, in which he said, " I have come to you from the West, where we have always...of our enemies — from an army whose business it was to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense."... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - 1897 - 648 pages
...formal address, July 14, to reanimate the brigades whom Jackson had left demoralised in the valley: " I have come to you from the West, where we have always...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when found, — whose policy has been attack, not defence. ... I desire you to dismiss from... | |
 | George Francis Robert Henderson - 1898 - 708 pages
...the expense of McClellan and of McClellan's army. 'I have come to you,' he said to his soldiers, ' from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. . . . I presume that I have been... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - 1899 - 764 pages
...i4thof July issued a very remarkable address, in which he said, among other things : I have come to join you from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack, not defense. ... I desire you to dismiss from your... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - 1899 - 394 pages
...Confederates. Pope, despite the fact that he unfortunately entered upon his new command with the declaration, "I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies, ' ' had been forced back from Gordonsville to the Washington lines. His total battle casualties had... | |
 | George Francis Robert Henderson - 1904 - 592 pages
...McClellan's army. 'I have come to you,' he said to his soldiers, ' from the West, where we have always Been the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. . . . I presume that I have been... | |
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I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies, — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when found, whose policy has been attack, not defense. 
