 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 618 pages
...I have been chary of the precious charge confided to me. I have refused to order useless sacrifices of the lives of such soldiers, and I am relieved from...my action I am responsible to God and my country." f Porter, who was dissatisfied with the result, remained with his fleet off Fort Fisher, and sent word... | |
 | Bartholomew S. De Forest - New York (State) - 1866 - 338 pages
...have btseu chary of the precious charge confided to me. I have refused to order useless sacrifices of the lives of such soldiers; and I am relieved from...stain my garments. For my action I am responsible to my God and my country. " To the Colored Troops of the Army of the James: In this army you have been... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1866 - 662 pages
...consequence of this failure, he was removed from command. In his farewell to his soldiers he said, " I have refused to order the useless sacrifice of the lives of such soldiers, and am relieved from your command." The latter part of January, when Admiral Porter was absent with his.... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 498 pages
...and a weary stretch of correspondence. When Butler was relieved, he said, in his farewell order : " I have refused to order the useless sacrifice of the lives of such soldiers, and am relieved from my command ;" a Parthian shot, which failed to hit, " for want of strength in the... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1895 - 1560 pages
...to his taking leave in an order, but it contains these words : I have refused to order the sacrifice of such soldiers, and I am relieved from your command....blood of my men does not stain my garments. For my actions I am responsible to God and my country. Shall I send this outT EOC ORD, Major-General. CITY... | |
 | Jacob Dolson Cox - United States - 1900 - 626 pages
...which you relieved yourself and the country of him." In the address referred to, Butler had said : " I have been chary of the precious charge confided...wasted blood of my men does not stain my garments." (OR, vol. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 71.) Such a publication made its keeping the enemy in doubt as to his purpose... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Butler - United States - 1917 - 778 pages
...such acts is honor. To have commanded such an Army is GLORY. No one could yield it without regret. I have refused to order the useless sacrifice of the...relieved from your command. The wasted blood of my men do not stain my garments. For my action I am responsible to God and my Country. To the Colored Troops... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - United States - 1923 - 328 pages
...insubordinate insolence of the farewell to his army, when he was relieved, which even Parton deplores. " I have refused to order the useless sacrifice of the...such soldiers, and I am relieved from your command." 60 Take the hideous remark about the New Orleans women, who turned their backs upon the Northerners:... | |
 | American literature - 1923 - 864 pages
...insubordinate insolence of the farewell to his army, when he was relieved, which even Parton deplores: "I have refused to order the useless sacrifice of...such soldiers, and I am relieved from your command." Take the lavish bestowal of bitter epithets upon those who had offeucjfid him. Badeau is "the French... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - History - 1991 - 788 pages
...in his farewell address to his tnx>ps, attacked Grant's spring campaign: "I have refused," he said, "to order the useless sacrifice of the lives of such...command. The wasted blood of my men does not stain my garments.'161 When a new expedition returned to Fort Fisher in January, the urbane and competent Alfred... | |
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I have been chary of the precious charge confided to me. I have refused to order the useless sacrifice of the lives of such soldiers, and I am relieved from your command. The wasted blood of my men does not stain my garments. 
