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" Here lies the seat of the coming empire ; and from the West, when our task is done, we will make short, work of Charleston and Richmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic. "
The Campaign Lives of Ulysses S. Grant, and Schuyler Colfax - Page 250
by James Sanks Brisbin - 1868 - 401 pages
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Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography

Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - Bookbinding - 1865 - 568 pages
...or die with the main trunk. We have done much, but still much remains. Time, and time's influences, are with us. We could almost afford to sit still,...impoverished coast of the Atlantic. " Your sincere friend." On the 12th of March, 1864, the President relieved MajorGeneral Halleck from duty as general-in-chief,...
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The Living Age, Volume 87

1865 - 654 pages
...or die with the main trunk. We have done uiucli, but still much remains. Time and time's influences are with us. We could almost afford to sit still and...the impoverished coast of the Atlantic. Your sincere fijiend." From the Spectator. SHERMAN'S GREAT MARCHES. AN excellent little volume, useful not merely,...
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Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography

Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 590 pages
...or die with the main trunk. We have done much, but still much remains. Time, and time's influences, are with us. We could almost afford to sit still,...Charleston and Richmond, and the impoverished coast of tha Atlantic. " Your sincere friend." On the 12th of March, 1864, the President relieved MajorGeneral...
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Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography

Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 572 pages
...done much, but still much remains. Time, and time's influences, are with us. We could almost'afford to sit still, and let these influences work. " Here...impoverished coast of the Atlantic. " Your sincere friend." On the 12th of March, 1864, the President relieved MajorGeneral Halleck from duty as general-in-chief,...
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The Making of the American Nation: Or, The Rise and Decline of Oligarchy in ...

J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...or die with the main trunk. "We have done much, but still much remains. Time and time's influences are with us. We could almost afford to sit still and...Richmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic." THREE-FIFTHS VOTING CLAUSE. The remaining " items of reconstruction/' are the abrogation of certain...
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The Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. U. S. Grant, from His Boyhood to the ...

Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1866 - 794 pages
...live or die with the main trunk. We have done much, but still mnch remains. Time and time's influences are with us. We could almost afford to sit still and...Richmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic. Tour sincere friend. On the 6th of March, 1864, he visited the departmental offices at Louisville,...
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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War at the Second ...

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Cheyenne Indians - 1866 - 876 pages
...General Halleck before he left Corinth the inevitable result, and I now exhort you to come out west. Here lies the seat of the coming empire, and from...impoverished coast of the Atlantic. Your sincere friend, General GRANT. WT SHERMAN. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, Memphis, March 11, 1864. I answered...
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Supplemental Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: In Two ...

United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - United States - 1866 - 886 pages
...empire, and from the west, when our task is done, we will make short work of Charleston and Eichmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic. Your sincere friend, WT SHERMAN. General GRANT. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE, Memphis, March 11, 1864. GENERAL : I arrived...
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Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the ..., Volumes 21-23

Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1893 - 638 pages
...feelingly replied, and added in a strain that now appears prophetic in its forecast of the future: , . "and from the West, when our task is done, we will...Richmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic." One of our greatest military critics has said " many a man will prove himself a hero when told what...
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Life and Public Services of General Ulysses S. Grant: From His Boyhood to ...

Charles A. Phelps - Presidents - 1868 - 386 pages
...sense seems to have supplied all these. Now, as to the future. Don't stay in Washington. Come AVest. Take to yourself the whole Mississippi Valley. Let...of the Atlantic. Your sincere friend, WT SHERMAN. The appointment of Gen. Grant touched the heart of the whole nation ; and, although he travelled rapidly,...
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