 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.  The Story of the Great Republic - Seite 219von Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1899 - 349 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - 394 Seiten
...and the Union Army entered it ; and General Sherman wrote to President Lincoln, " I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with...hundred and fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition, and also twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." He had lost, in the march, only sixtythree killed,... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1875 - 622 Seiten
...irrepressible shouts of delight as they reached the end of their march. Sherman at once telegraphed to Lincoln, " I beg to present you as a Christmas...gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns, plenty of ammunition, and 25,000 bales of cotton." I think President Lincoln never had a more... | |
 | James Moore (M.D.) - 1875 - 582 Seiten
...the 22d. The city had surrendered to General Geary. Sherman sent the President this despatch: '• I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns, plenty of ammunition, and about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." There were found in all... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 542 Seiten
...22d, Savannah surrendered, and on the 26th, the triumphant general telegraphed to the president, " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah." His objects had been completely obtained, the Georgia railways being broken up, the manufactories,... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 538 Seiten
...22d, Savannah surrendered, and on the 26th, the triumphant general telegraphed to the president, " I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah." His objects had been completely obtained, the Georgia railways being broken up, the manufactories,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 674 Seiten
...John's Church.1 On the 26th he sent a dispatch to President Lincoln, saying : " I beg to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with...hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." The President rePIied. thanking Sherman for his... | |
 | Leon Dande - 1877 - 864 Seiten
...for the President. You know Sherman said in his dispatch to Abraham Lincoln, ' I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with...hundred and fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition, and also about twentyfive thousand bales of cotton.' It was extremely humiliating to the Georgians,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1877 - 396 Seiten
...and the Union Army entered it ; and General Sherman wrote to President Lincoln, " I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with...hundred and fifty heavy guns, and plenty of ammunition, and also twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." He had lost, in the march, only sixtythree killed,... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1879 - 680 Seiten
...entered the city, and General Sherman thus announced to President Lincoln this splendid triumph : " / 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." Waiting at Savannah... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1879 - 380 Seiten
...entered Savannah. In announcing his triumph to President Lincoln, he said : " I beg to present you 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 cotton." Halleck, rejoicing... | |
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