 General Buell's preparations have been completed to move against the enemy, and I respectfully ask that he may be retained in command. My position is very embarrassing, not being as well informed as I should be as the commander of this army and on the...  Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland - Seite 136von Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Reunion - 1880Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | United States. War Department - 1880 - 1128 Seiten
...Colonel McKibbin handed me your dispatch, placing me iu command of the Department of the Tennessee. General Buell's preparations have been completed to...embarrassing, not being as well informed as I should be us the commander of this army and on the assumption of such a responsibility. GEO. H. THOMAS, Major-... | |
 | Thomas Budd Van Horne - 1882 - 538 Seiten
...Thomas requested that it should be restored to General Buell. In a despatch, to Washington he said : " General Buell's preparations have been completed to move against the enemy, and I respectfully ask that he may be retained in command. My position is very embarrassing, not being as... | |
 | Thomas Budd Van Horne - 1882 - 552 Seiten
...Thomas requested that it should be restored to General Buell. In a despatch to Washington he said: " General Buell's preparations have been completed to move against the enemy, and I respectfully ask that he may be retained in command. My position is very embarrassing, not being as... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1892 - 516 Seiten
...soldiers, and he at once telegraphed to Secretary Stauton: "General Buell's preparations have been complete to move against the enemy, and I therefore respectfully ask that he may be retained in command." In obedience to 95 Thomas's request the order relieving Buell was revoked, only to be met by a fiercer... | |
 | Donn Piatt - 1893 - 706 Seiten
...just cause for declining to supersede Buell, as stated in a telegram to head-quarters, which read : " General Buell's preparations have been completed to move against the enemy, and I respectfully ask that he may be retained in command. My position is very embarrassing. Not being as... | |
 | Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Ohio Commandery - 1903 - 564 Seiten
...unjust to himself and General Buell ; the exact words used in Thomas's dispatch to Halleck were : " General Buell's preparations have been completed to...respectfully ask that he may be retained in command."* It may be worth while to pause for a moment to remark that the situation in the latter part of October,... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - 1906 - 576 Seiten
...request to Washington for Buell's immediate restoration. " General Buell's preparations," it read, " have been completed to move against the enemy, and I therefore respectfully ask that be may be retained in command. My position is very embarrassing, not being as well informed as I should... | |
 | Don Carlos Seitz - 1924 - 570 Seiten
...command of the Department of the Tennessee. General Buell's preparations have been completed to march against the enemy, and I therefore respectfully ask...command. My position is very embarrassing, not being wellinformed as I should be, as the commander of this army, and on the assumption of such a responsibility.... | |
 | 1891 - 1024 Seiten
...tlireatening the Ohio River. Ordered by the War Department to supersede Buell, he telegraphed to Washington, " General Buell's preparations have been completed to...respectfully ask that he may be retained in command." His request was granted. The indecisive battle of Perryville was fought on the 8th of October, followed... | |
 | Freeman Cleaves - 1986 - 372 Seiten
...I must be allowed to see the message he prepared to send. He then prepared the following dispatch: 'General Buell's preparations have been completed to move against the enemy and I respectfully ask that he may be retained in command. My position is very embarrassing, not being as... | |
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