 | Samuel Livingston French - 1906 - 382 pages
...learning your whereabouts, your condition, and your wants, in preparing you for active operations, and placing you in positions from which you can act promptly...where we have always seen the backs of our enemies ; and from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found... | |
 | 1906 - 462 pages
...address to the officers and soldiers of the army of Virginia, which contained the following language : " Let us understand each other ; I have come to you...— from an army whose business it has been to seek an adversary, and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense. I presume I have... | |
 | 1906 - 456 pages
...address to the officers and soldiers of the army of Virginia, which contained the following language : " Let us understand each other; I have come to you from...— from an army whose business it has been to seek an adversary, and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense. I presume I have... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - 1906 - 368 pages
...overtake and overwhelm him. He announced to his troops, by way of a suitable introduction of himself: " 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 defense. I presume I have been called here to... | |
 | 1906 - 432 pages
...he should advance. To inspirit his little army and impress the enemy, he issued an order saying: " I have come to you from the West, where we have always...backs of our enemies — from an army whose business t was to seek the adversary and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defense."... | |
 | John William Jones - 1906 - 502 pages
...operations, and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come 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 to beat him when found;... | |
 | Robert Matteson Johnston - 1907 - 426 pages
...general. Pope soon became active. He issued a bombastic proclamation to his troops in which he said: "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 and not defence ..." He tried hard, very hard, to... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - 1907 - 674 pages
...address to his troops, July 14, dated "Headquarters in the Saddle": — "Let us understand each other. I come to you from the West where •we have always...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and beat him when he was found ; whose policy has been attack and not defence. ... I presume I have been... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1907 - 432 pages
...issuing a proclamation which implied a disparaging comparison between the armies of the East and West : " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies. ... I desire you to dismiss from your minds certain phrases which I am sorry to find so much in vogue... | |
 | Thomas Kemp Cartmell - 1909 - 648 pages
...as taken from OR, Vol. XII, part III, pp. 474, etc.) "I have come to you" addressing 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 defense * * * 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. 
