 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 pages
...below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN The Letter Lincoln Wrote But Did >(ot Send JLVJLoST military authorities agreed... | |
 | Wilmer L. Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 392 pages
...for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. . . . When you got below [Vicksburg] and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I...General Banks; and when you turned Northward, East of Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were... | |
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When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew... 
