 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. Lincoln 81. Gettysburg and After: LETTER TO GEORGE G. MEADE, JULY 14, 1863 AT... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 pages
...should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." 1031.1-2 importance. . .time] See p. 388.11-28 in this volume and note 775-2. 1031.6-8 arming . . .... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I wish now to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. unvexed to the sea." Sherman felt a thrill of pride when Admiral Porter wrote him regarding Port Hudson,... | |
 | Peter Cozzens - History - 1996 - 550 pages
...and join General Banks; and when you turned northward west of the Big Black, I feared you had made a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong," concluded the president graciously.1 Gratifying words, but all this adulation proved empty. Within... | |
 | Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - History - 1994 - 278 pages
...inestimable service you have done." He had, he wrote, doubted Grant's strategy throughout and now wished "to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong." This remarkable letter left Grant incapable of replying. Modesty halted his pen. Three weeks later... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - History - 1996 - 132 pages
...go down the river and join General [NP] Banks; and when you turned northward east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgement that you were right and I was wrong." This letter has no counterpart in the correspondence... | |
 | Kenneth Powers Williams - History - 1997 - 660 pages
...should go down the river and join General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Grant's reply was carried to Washington by Rawlins, with reports of the campaign, as well as rolls... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...should go down the river and join General Banks and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right as I was wrong." Lincoln finally had a major event to celebrate. 'The Father of Waters again goes unvexed... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 785 pages
...should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgement that you were right, and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN273 CHAPTER EIGHT... | |
 | John C. Pemberton - History - 2002 - 384 pages
...should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the...acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. A. LINCOLN."" When Lincoln's letter was published in the Northern papers, the Rebel War Clerk (Jones),... | |
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I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. 
