 | Adam Badeau - 1868 - 792 pages
...Washington ask, is that you enforce discipline, and punish the disorderly Instead of relieving you, I wish you, as soon as your new army is in the field,...immediate command, and lead it on to new victories." Grant replied on the next day : " After your letter, enclosing copy of an anonymous letter, upon which... | |
 | Charles Cornwallis Chesney - 1874 - 418 pages
...apologetic strain, concluding,—- " Instead of relieving you, I wish you, as soon as your new wing is in the field, to assume the immediate command, and lead it on to new victories;"' a wish which Grant at once received with good will, and forthwith withdrew his resignation. Halleck... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1880 - 646 pages
...Washington ask is that you enforce discipline and punish the disorderly. . . . Instead of relieving you, I wish you, as soon as your new army is in the field, to assume the immediate command and lead it to new victories.' It would appear that he had been temporarily superseded, for he he replies : ' I... | |
 | 1881 - 232 pages
...Washington ask is, that you enforce discipline and punish the disorderly. . . . Instead of relieving yon, I wish you, as soon as your new army is in the field,...immediate command and lead it on to new victories." To this Grant replied next day : " After your letter enclosing copy of an anonymous letter upon which... | |
 | Manning Ferguson Force - 1881 - 242 pages
...Washington ask is, that you enforce discipline and punish the disorderly. . . . Instead of relieving you, I wish you, as soon as your new army is in the field,...immediate command and lead it on to new victories." To this Grant replied next day : " After your letter enclosing copy of an anonymous letter upon which... | |
 | United States. War Dept - 1884 - 716 pages
...power is in your hands ; use it, and you will be sustained by all above you. Instead of relieving you, I wish you as soon as your new army is in the field...immediate command and lead it on to new victories. HW HALLECK, Major- General. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Louis, March 13, 1862. Maj.... | |
 | United States dept. of war - 1884 - 718 pages
...power is in your hands ; use it, and you will be sustained by all above you. Instead of relieving you, I wish you as soon as your new army is in the field...immediate command and lead it on to new victories. HW HALLECK, Major- General. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI, Saint Lonis, March 13, 1862. Maj.... | |
 | Adam Badeau - 1885 - 722 pages
...Washington ask, is that you enforce discipline, and punish the disorderly. .... Instead of relieving you, I wish you, as soon as your new army is in the field,...immediate command, and lead it on to new victories." Grant replied on the next day : " After your letter, enclosing copy of an anonymous letter, upon which... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 pages
...Washington ask is that you enforce discipline and punish the disorderly. . . Instead of relieving you, I wish you, as soon as your new army is in the field,...immediate command, and lead it on to new victories." Grant's answer was as follows : — "After your letter enclosing copy of an anonymous letter, upon... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 752 pages
...Washington ask, is that you enforce discipline and punish the disorderly. Instead of relieving you, I wish you as soon as your new army is in the field to assume command and lead it on to new victories." What brought about this change of tone ? Halleck had been... | |
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Instead of relieving you, I wish you (as soon as your new army is in the field) to assume the immediate command and lead it on to new victories. 
