 ... great success. Not only does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantages ; but in showing to the world that your army could be divided, putting the stronger part to an important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing...  Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography - Page 297by Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...opposing forces of the whole — Hood's army — it brings those who sat in darkness to see great light. " Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your whole army, officers and men. " Yours, very truly, A. LISOOLS." Two separate expeditions were sent out from the Mississippi to distract the enemy's attention... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing forces of the whole — Hood's array — it brings, those who sat in darkness to see a great light....whole army, officers and men. " Yours, very truly, "A. LINCOLH." From Chattanooga to Savannah, and the end not yet. CHAPTER XVIII. / THE CLOSE OF 1864—... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1866 - 728 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing forces of the whole — Hood's army— it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light....officers and men. " Yours, very truly, " A. LINCOLN." From Chattanooga to Savannah, and the end not yet. CHAPTER XVIII. THE CLOSE OF 1864— THE OPENING... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Cheyenne Indians - 1866 - 876 pages
...stronger part to an important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole—Hood's army—it brings those who sat...great light. But what next ? I suppose it will be safer if I leave- General Grant < and yourself to decide. Please make my grateful acknowledgments to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - United States - 1866 - 886 pages
...service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole — Hood's army — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next ? I suppose it will be safer if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 pages
...opposing forces of the whole—Hood's army—it brings those who sat in darkness to see great light. "Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your whole...officers and men. "Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN." Two separate expeditions were sent .out from the Mississippi to distract the enemy's attention from... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 836 pages
...forces of the •whole — Hood's army — it brings those who sat in darkness to see great light. " Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your whole...officers and men. " Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN." Two separate expeditions were sent out from the Mississippi to distract the enemy's attention from... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, Hood's army, it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next ? I suppose it will be safer if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide." So highly do I prize this testimonial that... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Generals - 1875 - 422 pages
...new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, Hood's army, it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next? I suppose it will be safer if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. A. LINCOLN. Of course, this judgment, made after... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - United States - 1876 - 842 pages
...new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, Hood's army, it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what nest ? I suppose it will be safer if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. A. LINCOLN. Of course,... | |
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