 It is with heartfelt satisfaction, that the Commanding General announces to the army, that the operations of the last three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defences, and give us battle on our...  Southern Historical Society Papers - Page 108by Southern Historical Society - 1897Full view - About this book
 | John Richards Boyle - 1903 - 382 pages
...three days have determined that our enemy must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." tGeneral Hooker took supper on the evening of April 30 with General Slocum and a few members of the... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele - 1904 - 440 pages
...exclaimed, in a congratulatory order to his troops, that they now occupied " a position so strong that the enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out...defences and give us battle on our own ground, where ccrtain destruction awaits him." The next day the Union army moved out of the Wilderness into an advantageous... | |
 | United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) - 1905 - 1066 pages
...commanding general announces to the army that the operations of the past three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from...own ground, where certain destruction awaits him. The operations of the $th, nth and I2th corps have been a succession of splendid achievements. By command... | |
 | United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) - 1905 - 866 pages
...commanding general announces to the army that the operations of the past three days have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly, or come out from...own ground, where certain destruction awaits him. The operations of the 5th, I Ith and 1 2th corps have been a succession of splendid achievements. By... | |
 | Thomas Chamberlin - 1905 - 430 pages
...beyond the "Wilderness", where, as voiced in his congratulatory order of the evening of April 30, "Our enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from...own ground, where certain destruction awaits him". Nor can too much stress be laid upon the injury received by the commanding general on the morning of... | |
 | William Robertson Garrett, Robert Ambrose Halley - 1905 - 640 pages
...to his men assuring them that " the enemy must ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground where certain destruction awaits him." These threatened alternatives were yet to be experienced by Lee's army ; they had not as yet been their... | |
 | 1905 - 762 pages
...to his men assuring them that "the enemy must ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defenses and give us battle on our own ground where certain destruction awaits him." These threatened alternatives were yet to be experienced by Lee's army ; they had not as yet been their... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 622 pages
...a boastful order. " The operations of the last three days," he declared, " have determined that our enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from...own ground, where certain destruction awaits him." 8 That " with 1 OR, vol. xxv. part ii. p. 243. But see Hooker's testimony, C. W-, 1865, vol. ip 113.... | |
 | United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 125th (1862-1863) - 1906 - 352 pages
...last three days has determined that our enemies must ingloriously fly, or come out from behind their defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits them." My first exploit was to pick up a lady's slipper on the lawn of the Chancellorsville Mansion,... | |
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