 | 1865 - 278 pages
...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 Pass...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks ; and when you, turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I... | |
 | Frank Crosby - 1865 - 498 pages
...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 Pass...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 864 pages
...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 Pass...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1885 - 316 pages
...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 Pass...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river, and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 840 pages
...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 Pass...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... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 148 pages
...below ; and I never had any faith except a general hope that you knew better than I that the Tazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when, you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - 1865 - 872 pages
...below; and I never had any faith except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Page expedition and the like could succeed. When you got...vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward east of the Big black, I feared it was a mistake I now... | |
 | Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) Edmonds - 1865 - 446 pages
...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 Pass...like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gipson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Banks ; and when you... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 848 pages
...thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that yon kuew bettor than I, that tho Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed....took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought yon should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 pages
...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 you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now... | |
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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... 
