 | Abraham Lincoln - 1885 - 316 էջ
...hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and...acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. The proclamation which the President issued upon occasion of these victories is... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 148 էջ
...hope that you knew better than I that the Tazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours truly, "A. LINCOLN. " MAJOK-G'BNEBAI, GRANT." Mr. Lincoln's annual message was sent in to Congress... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 864 էջ
...hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and...acknowledgment, that you were right and I was wrong. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. • These victories, together with others, both numerous and important, which were... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 էջ
...general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Page expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. A. LINCOLN." While these events were taking place in the immediate neighborhood of Vicksburg, a remarkable... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 էջ
...Cannon, then of Gen. Wool's staff. f have done the country. I write to say a word further. * * * When you took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought...acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." How gently he assuaged the tumult of party strifes, by his tone of magnanimity toward iis defeated... | |
 | 1865 - 278 էջ
...hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and...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."... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 886 էջ
...hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and...down the river and join General Banks, and when you tnrned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - 1865 - 884 էջ
...generaf hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition und the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks, Mid when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - 1865 - 886 էջ
...hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition «nd the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Uen. Banks, ind when you turned northward, east of the Big black, I feared it was a mistake. I now... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 840 էջ
...hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should gu dowu the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared... | |
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... 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 better than I, that the Yazoo... 
