 | Horace White - Legislators - 1913 - 510 pages
...Edward Bates shared it. Welles wrote: In this whole summer's campaign I have been unable to see or hear or obtain evidence of power or will or talent...scold and smoke and scratch his elbows. Is it possible that the energies of a nation should be wasted by the incapacity of such a man? When Welles said to... | |
 | Clarence Edward Noble Macartney - Generals - 1925 - 256 pages
...nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing. His being at headquarters is a national misfortune." "In this whole summer's campaign I have been unable...should be wasted by the incapacity of such a man?" Reading such opinions as these on the part of men who saw Halleck in action, or rather saw him failing... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - United States - 1991 - 788 pages
...Welles often viewed him inaccurately, there was some truth, in the summer of 1863, in Welles's failure "to see, hear, or obtain evidence of power, or will,...nothing, but scold and smoke and scratch his elbows." Rather than holding the initiative and vigorously exploiting victories, the general in chief seemed... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...Halleck, too. "He has suggested nothing, decided nothing," criticized Welles of the general- in- chief. "Done nothing but scold and smoke and scratch his...should be wasted by the incapacity of such a man?' On the night of July 13 and the early morning of the i4th, Lee began moving his army back into West... | |
 | Wilmer L. Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 392 pages
...me." Welles, who usually respected Lincoln's judgment, was less kind in his evaluation of Halleck: "I have been unable to see, hear, or obtain evidence...or originality on the part of General Halleck. He originates nothing, anticipates nothing to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests... | |
 | American essays - 1909 - 934 pages
...They should be held responsible. There are generals who, no doubt, will acquiesce without any regret in having this war prolonged. In this whole summer's...nation should be wasted by the incapacity of such a man ! Friday, July 17, 1863. At the Cabinet Council Seward expressed great apprehension of a break-up of... | |
 | Military art and science - 1937 - 1178 pages
...operations." The Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, expressed his opinion of him as follows: "He had suggested nothing, decided nothing, done nothing, but scold and smoke and scratch his elbows." Admiral Foote called him a military imbecile. He was the author of the best know military text on strategy... | |
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In this whole summer's campaign I have been unable to see, hear, or obtain evidence of power, or will, or talent, or originality on the part of General Halleck. He has suggested nothing, decided nothing, done nothing but scold and smoke and scratch his... 