If Hood is permitted to remain quietly about Nashville, you will lose all the road back to Chattanooga and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tennessee. Should he attack you it is all well, but if he does not you should attack him before he fortifies. The Life of Major-General George H. Thomas - Seite 301von Thomas Budd Van Horne - 1882 - 502 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1897 - 1172 Seiten
...will lose all the road back to Chattanooga, and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tennessee. Should he attack you, it is all well; but if he does...fortifies. Arm and put in the trenches your quartermaster's employees, citizens, etc.* Nashville was a large military depot where there were nearly 10,000 employees,... | |
| Thomas Budd Van Horne - 1875 - 498 Seiten
...will lose all the roads back to Chattanooga, and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tennessee river. Should he attack you, it is all well, but if...trenches your quartermaster's employes, citizens, etc. (Signed,) US GRANT, Lieutenant- General. CITY POINT, VA., December 2, 1864 — 1.30 PM Major- General... | |
| Thomas Budd Van Horne - 1875 - 500 Seiten
...will lose all the roads back to Chattanooga, and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tennessee river. Should he attack you, it is all well, but if...trenches your quartermaster's employes, citizens, etc. (Signed,) US GRANT, Lieutenant- General. CITY POINT, VA., December 2, 1864—1.30 p. M. Major-General... | |
| Henry Van Boynton - 1875 - 296 Seiten
...will lose all the roads back to Chattanooga, and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tennessee River. Should he attack you it is all well, but if...trenches your quartermaster's employes, citizens, etc. US GRANT, Lieutenant- General. CITY POINT, VA., December 2, 1864, 1:30 PM Major-General GEO. H. THOMAS,... | |
| Henry Van Ness Boynton - 1875 - 542 Seiten
...to Chattanooga, and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tennessee River. Should he attack yon it is all well, but if he does not you should attack...fortifies. Arm and put in the trenches your quartermaster's employés, citizens, etc. U. 8. QRAml Lieutenant-GeneraL CITY PUI.NT, VA., December t, 1861, 1:30 VM... | |
| Adam Badeau - 1881 - 786 Seiten
...will lose all the road back to Chattanooga, and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tennessee. Should he attack you, it is all well ; but if he does...Arm, and put in the trenches, your quartermaster's employe's, citizens, etc." The government shared very fully this anxiety of the general-in-chief, and... | |
| Thomas Budd Van Horne - 1882 - 552 Seiten
...let the enemy raid the country. The President wishes you to consider the matter. EDWIN M. STAXTON, Secretary of War. Immediately upon receipt of this...purport, but more specific in instructions, was sent: lin, it looks to me that instead of falling back to Nashville, we should have taken the offensive against... | |
| Adam Badeau - 1882 - 792 Seiten
...will lose all the road back to Chattanooga, and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tennessee. Should he attack you, it is all well; but if he does...trenches, your quartermaster's employes, citizens, etc." The government shared very fully this anxiety of the general-in-chief, and an hour after sending his... | |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - 686 Seiten
...gallant and efficient officer, I gave him an order to proceed to Nashville to relieve Thomas. I directed well, but if he does not you should attack him before he fortifies. Arm and put in the trenches your quartermaster employees, citizens, etc. US GRANT, Lieutenant- General. CITY POINT, VA., December 2,... | |
| Donn Piatt - 1893 - 680 Seiten
...will lose all the roads back to Chattanooga, and possibly have to abandon the line of the Tennessee river. Should he attack you it is all well, but if...trenches, your Quartermaster's employes, citizens, etc. [Signed,] TJ. S. GHANT, Lieut.-Gen. CITY POINT, VA., Dee. 2, 1864—1:30 p. M. . Maj.-Gen. George H.... | |
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