 | Generals - 1885 - 108 pages
...go 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...turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was & mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you -were right and I was wrong." RESULTS... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Generals - 1885 - 752 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. . . . When you got below Vicksburg and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong;" and Halleck, who had all along disapproved... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 936 pages
...acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. . . . When you got below Vicksburg and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong ;" and Halleck, who had all along disapproved... | |
 | Adam Badeau - United States - 1885 - 722 pages
...wrote, after all was over : " When you got below, and took Port' Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinit}', I thought you should go down the river and join General...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake." * This disapprobation was not confined to the President. When Grant's plan of campaign was indicated,... | |
 | New England - 1885 - 504 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 got below, and took Fort Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks;... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1886 - 528 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." And yet, Grant's MODESTY never surrendered. It was a tremendous bombardment... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Biography & Autobiography - 1886 - 384 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...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I wish, now, to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." So closely had... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 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...right and I was wrong. Yours truly, "A. LINCOLN." The events which have just been briefly mentioned greatly changed the current of feeling in the North.... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 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...east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I wish now to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." The time was soon... | |
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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... 
