 | Jubal Anderson Early - Generals - 1867 - 120 pages
...Being compelled to occupy the position where I was, and being aware of its danger as well as apprized of the fact that very great odds were opposed to me,...his policy to produce the impression that his force was^too weak to fight me, he did not succeed, but if it was to convince me that he was not an able... | |
 | Jubal Anderson Early - United States - 1867 - 144 pages
...Being compelled to occupy the position where I was, and being aware of its danger as well as apprized of the fact that very great odds were opposed to me,...opposed to me was without enterprise, and possessed uu excessive caution which amounted to timidity. If it was his policy to produce the impression that... | |
 | Francis Henry Buffum - United States - 1882 - 538 pages
...the Opequan, will probably amuse the Fourteenth boys as much as any passage between these covers. " The events of the last month had satisfied me that...; but if it was to convince me that he was not an able or energetic commander, his strategy was a complete success, and subsequent events have not changed... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1889 - 894 pages
...was disappointed and disgusted by his wary methods, and says in his " Last Year of the War" that " the events of the last month had satisfied me that the commander opposing me was without enterprise and possessed an excessive caution which amounted to timidity. If... | |
 | Walter Birkbeck Wood, Sir James Edward Edmonds - United States - 1905 - 608 pages
...the rest of his division, and by Gordon on the left, threw the 19th Corps3 and 1 "The events of ihe last month had satisfied me that the commander opposed...possessed an excessive caution which amounted to timidity " (4B. &L.,S22). 1 The 1gth Corps was delayed by the guns and trains of the 6th Corps, which were preceding... | |
 | Gary W. Gallagher - History - 1991 - 156 pages
...deserve consultation. Jubal Early drew precisely the wrong impression of his adversary in mid-September: "The events of the last month had satisfied me that...an excessive caution which amounted to timidity," he later wrote. Events would soon underscore Old Jube's miscalculation. Grant's assessment is more... | |
 | Edward James Stackpole - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 452 pages
...advantage. "The events of the last month (August-September) had satisfied me," Early says in his Memoirs, "that the commander opposed to me was without enterprise,...an excessive caution which amounted to timidity." In light of subsequent events in the Valley, such an appraisal of the enterprising Sheridan indicated... | |
 | George Walsh - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 502 pages
...Sheridan, however, was making him overconfident. "The events of the last month had satisfied me," he said, "that the commander opposed to me was without enterprise,...an excessive caution which amounted to timidity." Sheridan was just biding his time, however. On September 19 he advanced against Winchester with a three-toone... | |
 | Jack H. Lepa - History - 2003 - 264 pages
...to resume the use of the railroad and canal, and return all the troops from Grant's army to him.... The events of the last month had satisfied me that...succeed, but if it was to convince me that he was not an able or energetic commander, his strategy was a complete success, and subsequent events have not changed... | |
 | Brian M. Thomsen - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 390 pages
...Being compelled to occupy the position where I was, and being aware of its danger as well as apprized of the fact that very great odds were opposed to me,...succeed, but if it was to convince me that he was not an able or energetic commander, his strategy was a complete success, and subsequent events have not changed... | |
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The events of the last month had satisfied me that the commander opposed to me was without enterprise, and possessed an excessive caution which amounted to timidity. If it was his policy to produce the impression that his force was too weak to fight me,... 
