 | James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 pages
...to diminish his reputation for braggadocio in this singularly inept document. "I come to you out of the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies," he declared. "I am sorry to find so much in vogue amongst you . . . certain phrases [like] . . . 'lines... | |
 | Percival Green Lowe - 1973 - 388 pages
...Virginia. His order issued from "headquarters in the saddle" in which he also stated that he had come from the west "where we have always seen the backs of our enemies" was regarded as bombastic, and his only campaign led to the disaster of second Bull Run. He asked to... | |
 | 1991 - 630 pages
...troops shortly after taking over, he tactlessly compared the eastern armies unfavorably with those in the West, "where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." Halleck knew of Pope's boasting and its effect on the rank and file in the eastern armies, but he worried... | |
 | Michael C. C. Adams - 1992 - 276 pages
...scolded the army for its concern with "probable lines of retreat." He came from the west, he said, "where we have always seen the backs of our enemies;...whose business it has been to seek the adversary and beat him when he was found; whose policy has been attack and not defense." The piece has been derided... | |
 | Byron Farwell - 1993 - 582 pages
...some success commanding the Army of the Mississippi; on taking over his new command, he boasted: "I come to you from the West where we have always seen the backs of our enemies. . . ."' Eager to fight, he moved rapidly southward into central Virginia. Someone remarked to Jackson:... | |
 | Walter Herron Taylor - 1994 - 358 pages
...to his troops, by way of a suitable introduction LEE SENDS JACKSON TO OPPOSE POPE 87 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... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 pages
...published a series of tactless orders informing his exhausted and dispirited Eastern soldiers that he came from the West, "where we have always seen the backs of our enemies," and promising that he would pay more attention to his lines of advance than to his lines of retreat.... | |
 | Fletcher Pratt - 1997 - 466 pages
...downhearted and poorly trained. To buck them up the new general opened with a proclamation—"I have come from the West where we have always seen the backs of our enemies. I hear constantly of lines of retreat. Let us discard such ideas. Let us study the lines of retreat... | |
 | Joseph L. Harsh - 1998 - 316 pages
...their pursuit. Lee was playing on Pope's July 14 address, in which the Federal general proclaimed: "I come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies. . . ." That humor at Pope's expense was already - 201 current in the Confederate army is attested by... | |
 | Robert Gould Shaw - 1999 - 492 pages
...inspire confidence in his men, made an infamous speech: "Let us understand each other. I have come to vou from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies." Contrary to its purpose, Pope's speech infuriated his men and McClellan, who took it to mean they were... | |
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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. 
