 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 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...Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down theriver and join General Banks, and when you turned northward,, east of the Big Black, I feared it... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 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...Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go below and down the river and join General Banks ; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black,... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 644 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." Halleck, stirred to unwonted enthusiasm, also wrote : — " In boldness of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1885 - 410 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...mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment Unit you were right and I was wrong. " Yours very truly, "A. LINCOLN." And yet Grant's MODESTY never... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - Voyages and travels - 1885 - 374 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 acknowledgement that you were right and I ixas wrong Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. The brilliant... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1885 - 472 pages
...below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew bet ter than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...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. Abraham... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 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." The grade of major-general in the regular... | |
 | Loomis T. Palmer - Generals - 1885 - 790 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 acknowledgement that you were riff ht and I was -wrong Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. GENERAL... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - Presidents - 1885 - 800 pages
...below ; and 1 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 acknowledgement that you •were right and I zvas -wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN.... | |
 | Loomis T. Palmer - Generals - 1885 - 740 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 acknowledgement that you •mere right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. GENERAL... | |
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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... 
