 | Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 516 lehte
...— 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...when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I thought it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I... | |
 | Marshall Everett - 1901 - 568 lehte
...— 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1901 - 476 lehte
...— 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...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... | |
 | Walter Allen - 1901 - 184 lehte
...grateful acknowledgment of the almost inestimable service you have done the country." In it he said : " I never had any faith, except a general hope that...you should go down the river and join General Banks [besieging Port Hudson] ; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 lehte
...— 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 better than I, that the Yazoo 175 Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf,... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1908 - 828 lehte
...— 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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. "A. LINCOLN." Lincoln and Grant, Horace... | |
 | Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - 1908 - 410 lehte
...— 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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make tbe personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN The evacuation... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1908 - 762 lehte
...— 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...Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. "A. LINCOLN." Lincoln andGranl, Horace... | |
 | R. D. WORDSWORTH - 1908 - 104 lehte
...— 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...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... | |
 | Francis Grant Blair - 1908 - 80 lehte
...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...Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you sho ild go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black,... | |
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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... 
