 | 1887 - 886 pages
...between him and his base of supplies, yet he " felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equalled, since I was on dry ground on the same side of the river with the enemy." And indeed from this moment his success was continuous. The enemy had at Grand Gulf, at Haines Bluff... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 216 pages
...between him and his base of supplies, yet he " felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equalled, since I was on dry ground on the same side of the river with the enemy." And indeed from this moment his success was continuous. The enemy had at Grand Gulf, at Haines Bluff... | |
 | Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers - 1888 - 720 pages
...over the river, " says Gen. Grant, " I felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equaled since." * * * " I was on dry ground, on the same side of the river with the enemy." Among those thousands now marching on Vicksburg from the rear, were twenty-nine regiments and batteries... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1892 - 612 pages
...in the enemy's country, with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between me and my base of supplies. But I was on dry ground on the same side...the enemy. All the campaigns, labors, hardships and this time that had been made and endured, were for the accomplishment of this one object. I had with... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 366 pages
...in the enemy's country, with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between me and my base of supplies, but I was on dry ground, on the same side of the river with the enemy." The situation was this : The enemy had about sixty thousand men at Vicksburg, Haines' Bluff, and at... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 376 pages
...in the enemy's country, with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between me and my base of supplies, but I was on dry ground, on the same side of the river with the enemy." The situation was this : The enemy had about sixty thousand men at Vicksburg, Haines' Bluff, and at... | |
 | John Codman Ropes - 1913 - 350 pages
...in the enemy's country, with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between me and my base of supplies. But I was on dry ground on the same side of the river as the enemy. All the campaigns, labors, hardships, and exposures from the month of December previous... | |
 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...in the enemy's country with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between me and my base of supplies. But I was on dry ground on the same side of the river with the enemy. All the campaigns, labor, hardships, and exposures from the month of December previous to this time that had been made... | |
 | Owen Wister - 1928 - 298 pages
...Vicksburg. "When this was effected, I felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equalled since," he says. "I was on dry ground on the same side of the river with the enemy." He now manoeuvred to deceive Pemberton, and easily did so. On May 1 he won the battle of Port Gibson.... | |
 | James Irvin Robertson (Jr.) - 1913 - 354 pages
...in the enemy's country, with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between me and my base of supplies. But I was on dry ground on the same side of the river as the enemy. All the campaigns, labors, hardships, and exposures from the month of December previous... | |
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I was now in the enemy's country, with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between me and my base of supplies. But I was on dry ground on the same side of the river with the enemy. 
