 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 386 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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." Halleck also was liberal in his praise... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 452 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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you •were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, "A. LINCOLN." Grant... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment tJiat you were right and I wag wrong. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Congratulations... | |
 | Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 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...Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to mnke a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. CHAPTER... | |
 | Henry Champion Deming - Electronic books - 1868 - 562 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...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I triumphs; he had treated him during the Corinth campaign as a mere successful blunderer, and had such... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 664 pages
...any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and tho like could succeed. When you got below and took Port...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make tho personal acknowledgment that you were riyht and I wen wrong. " Yours very truly, A. LISCOLN." Halleck,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When yon got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity,...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrang. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Congratulations... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 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...General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of tho Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were... | |
 | James Sanks Brisbin - Campaign literature, 1868 - 1868 - 424 pages
...thousand men. The President wrote Grant: " When you got below and took Port Gibson and Grand Gulf, I thought you should go down the river and join General...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake." Halleck wrote : " If possible, the forces of yourself and Banks should be united between Vicksburg... | |
 | Adam Badeau - Generals - 1868 - 792 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...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and joia General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake.... | |
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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... 
