 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...brief campaign, brought down upon its author a full measure of ridicule and scorn. " I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found — whose policy has been attack and not defence. I presume that I have been... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...General Lee resolved upon a flank movement to the left and intrusted it to Stone1 ... I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when found — whose policy has been attack, and not defense. ... I presume that I have... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Illinois - 1862 - 202 pages
...in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat linn when found— whose policy hue been attack, and not defense. In butone instance has the... | |
 | 1863 - 856 pages
...field. Lt vn understand each other. I have come to you from the West where we bare always seen the bocks of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek an adversary and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one instance... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Illinois - 1862 - 212 pages
...in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to yon from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies—from an army whose business it baa been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found—whose... | |
 | English Combatant - United States - 1863 - 388 pages
...and in placing you in position from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to yon from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found — whose policy has been attack, and not defence ! In but one instance has... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 848 pages
...we have always seen the backs of oar enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek an adversary and beat him when found ; whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one instance has the enemy been able to place our Western armies in a defensive attitude.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...hi placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. " I have come to you . Paxton, killed • Gen. Heth, wounded. 44 May 6th....LEE'S ORDER — STONEMAN'S RAID. 3C5 the reasons are w »eek the adversary, and to beat him when found — whose policy has been attack, and not defense.... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. "I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found — whose policy has been attack, and not defence. " In but one instance has... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 494 pages
...in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the purpose. I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs...whose business it has been to seek the adversary and to beat him when found — whose policy has been attack and not defence. In but one instance has the... | |
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I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies— from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence. 
