 | Franklin Spencer Edmonds - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 394 pages
...without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts, no reserve ; and I tell you that it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew wherever I was...thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come — if alive. My only points of doubt were as to your knowledge of grand strategy, and of books... | |
 | Franklin Spencer Edmonds - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 396 pages
...without hesitation, as at Chattanooga—no doubts, no reserve; :m<l I tell you that it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew wherever I was...that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place yon would come—if alive. My only points of doubt were as to your knowledge of grand strategy, and... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - United States - 1923 - 398 pages
...without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts, no reserve ; and I tell you that it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew, wherever I was,...thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come, if alive.' These passages are valuable as revealing Grant's prevailing traits, as viewed by one... | |
 | 1897 - 566 pages
...battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga, no doubts, no reserves ; and I tell you it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew wherever I was...thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come if alive. Now as to the future. Don't stay in Washington. Halieck is better qualified than you... | |
 | Freeman Cleaves - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1986 - 372 pages
...battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts, no reserves; and I tell you it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew wherever I was...you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you could come if alive. . . . You are now Washington's legitimate successor."26 Even without this sweeping... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 pages
...without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts — no reserve, and I tell you that it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew wherever I was...thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come if alive My only points of doubt were in your knowledge of Grand Strategy and of Books of Science... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts, no reserves; and I tell you it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew wherever I was...thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come if alive. My only points of doubt were in your knowledge of grand strategy and of books of science... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 785 pages
...without hesitation, as at Chattanooga— no doubts— no reserve; and I tell you that it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got into a tight place you would help me out, if alive. My only points of doubt was in your knowledge of... | |
 | Charles Bracelen Flood - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 508 pages
...emerge from obscurity, equal to any occasion. — William Tecumseh Sherman, six weeks before Bull Run I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come if alive. —Sherman to Grant, March 10, 1864, summing up their successful Western campaigns But... | |
 | Timothy Bowes - Religion - 2007 - 397 pages
...summed up nowhere more eloquently than in an 1865 letter from William T. Sherman to Ulysses S. Grant: "I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come— if alive." Barnabas was sent to the church at Antioch to help the new Christians there. When... | |
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This faith gave you victory at Shiloh and Vicksburg. Also, when you have completed your best preparations, you go into battle without hesitation, as at Chattanooga — no doubts — no reserves ; and I tell you, it was this that made us act with confidence.... 
