 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 776 pages
...enemy. Sherman announced his success in a characteristic despatch. He wrote to President Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - Generals - 1868 - 644 pages
...after a march of three hundred miles within the enemy' a lines. A few days later its leader telegraphed the President : — " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, and about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton."... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana - Generals - 1868 - 456 pages
...valuable property. He immediately announced his success to the President in the following terms : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition and also about 25,000 bales of cotton." The present and in fact... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1134 pages
...December. Sherman himself was absent, but two days later he returned, and telegraphed to Mr. Lincoln, "I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1868 - 804 pages
...enemy. Sherman announced his success in a characteristic despatch. He wrote to President Lincoln : " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - American literature - 1869 - 546 pages
...telegraphed to Lincoln:— * This, I learned afterward, from the Hon. Mr. , was duly don« by Mr. D»nleL " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns, and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...telegraph transmitted, to the President this laconic message:— His Excellency President LINCOLN: I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...transmitted to the President this laconic message: — , Deccntter 22, ISM. His Excellency President LINCOLN: I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 868 pages
...this crowning success of the campaign : SAVAXXAII, OA.. December 2i Hit Excellency President Lincoln : I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twentyflvo thousand bales... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...indirectly instrumental in involving us in its attendant calamities. Sherman announced his triumph to the President: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with 150 guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton." To this Lincoln returned his heartfelt... | |
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton. 
