 | American essays - 1914 - 1078 pages
...confidence which would burst from lips not tutored to keep still. 'The finest army on the planet.' 'The operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or give us battle on our own ground where certain destruction awaits him.' 'My plans are perfect, and... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 840 pages
...wing that he expressly complimented it. " It is," he said in his order, April 30, "with feelings of heartfelt satisfaction that the Commanding General...operations of the last three days have determined that the enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our... | |
 | American literature - 1863 - 882 pages
...sharp skirmishes took place at different points. On the 30th General Hooker issned an order aunouncing that " the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either mgloriously fly, or come out and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits... | |
 | David Wright Judd - United States - 1864 - 446 pages
...POTOMAC, ) NEAR FALMOUTH, APRIL 30, 1863. j It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the General Commanding announces to the army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind their defences and give us battle on our own ground, where... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1865 - 1244 pages
...FALMOUTH, VIRGINIA, " April 30, 1863. "It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the general commanding announces to the army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind their defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 872 pages
..."NEAR FALMOUTH, VA., April 30, 1863. J "It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the General Commanding repulso »n attack. I regret my great inferiority of numbers, but feel that I am in no way responsi ¡notoriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground, where... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...ЗОИ, 1803. \ It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the Commanding (ieneral announces to the armythat the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either inglonously fly or come out from behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 936 pages
...VA., April 30, 1863. j я with heartfelt satisfaction that the General Commanding announces to the tat the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must usly fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own where certain destruction... | |
 | William Parker Snow - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 580 pages
...troops now appear of success that Hooker, on the next day, April 30th, issued the following order: — " It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the commanding...our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out frdm behind his defences and give us battle on our own ground where certain destruction awaits him.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...its perils. It reads as follows: " HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, 44 CAMP NEAR FALMOOTH, VA., tfc April 30, 1863. " It is with heartfelt satisfaction...three days have determined that our enemy must either inglorionsly fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain... | |
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It is with heartfelt satisfaction that the commanding general announces to the army that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our own ground,... 
