 | Jacob William Schuckers - 1874 - 736 pages
...trust, and that I could not but feel that giving command to him was equivalent to giving Washington io the rebels. This, and more, I said. Other members...differing on such a point from the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Treasury; but he did not see who could do the work wanted so well as McClellan.... | |
 | Robert Bruce Warden - 1874 - 872 pages
...Saturday evinced a spirit which rendered him unworthy of trust, and that I could not but feel that giving command to him was equivalent to giving Washington...concurrence, but in no very energetic terms. [Mr. Blair must.be excepted, but he did not dissent.] tary of the Treasury ; that he would gladly resign his place;... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1903 - 536 pages
...from putting another in command) given him all possible support in every way, raising means and urging reinforcements; — that his experience as a military...rebels. This and more I said. Other members of the Cabijet expressed a general concurrence but in no very energetic terms. (Mr. Blair must be excepted... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan - 1886 - 710 pages
...command them for the defence of Washington. "I remarked . . . that I could not but feel that giving command to him was equivalent to giving Washington to the rebels. This and more I said. . . . see who could do the work wanted as well as McClellan. I named Hooker, or Sumner, or Burnside,... | |
 | 1887 - 668 pages
...the forts." And again, " I remarked that I could not but feel that giving command to him [McClellan] was equivalent to giving Washington to the rebels. This, and more, I said." Additional light is cast on the attitude of Chase and Stanton at this time by Mr. Welles, Secretary... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - 1899 - 566 pages
...to put the troops into the fortifications and command them for the defense of Washington. I remarked that I could not but feel that giving the command...giving Washington to the rebels. This and more I said. The President said it distressed him exceedingly to find himself differing on such a point from the... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1903 - 536 pages
...from putting another in command) given him all possible support in every way, raising means and urging reinforcements; — that his experience as a military...but in no very energetic terms. (Mr. Blair must be exceptcd but he did not dissent.) The President said it distressed him exceedingly to find himself... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 622 pages
...his neglect to urge forward reinforcements to Pope proved him unworthy of trust, and " that giving command to him was equivalent to giving Washington to the rebels." " This, and more, I said," sets down Chase in his diary. All the members of the cabinet except Seward 1 and Blair " expressed... | |
 | James Havelock Campbell - 1916 - 476 pages
...command them for the defense of Washington. I remarked . . . that I could not but feel that giving command to him was equivalent to giving Washington to the rebels. This and more I said. . . . The President said it distressed him exceedingly to find himself differing on such a point from... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1917 - 686 pages
...that his neglect to urge forward reinforcements to Pope proved him unworthy of trust and that "giving command to him was equivalent to giving Washington to the rebels." "This and more I said," set down Chase in his diary. All the members of the Cabinet except Seward (who was out of the city)... | |
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... reinforcements; — that his experience as a military commander had been little else than a series of failures; — and that his omission to urge troops forward to the battles of Friday and Saturday, evinced a spirit which rendered him unworthy of... 
