| Frederick Trevor Hill - 1911 - 340 páginas
...the lines. "All this has been my fault," he repeated soothingly to a discouraged officer. "It is I that have lost this fight and you must help me out of it the best way you can. . . . Don't whip your horse, Captain," he quietly remarked, as he noted another... | |
| 1915 - 608 páginas
...himself, even for the fault or failure of others. At Gettysburg it was: "It is all my fault; it is I who have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it the best you can." At Appomattox : "I will take all the responsibility." Though in neither case was... | |
| Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 590 páginas
...defeat to bear as the other, and General Lee is quoted as saying: "All this has been my fault. It is I that have lost this fight and you must help me out of it in the best way you can."* At Gettysburg July 4 passed in joyful but saddened tranquility, but the exuberance of the North knew... | |
| Willis John Abbot - 1916 - 384 páginas
...hands with him, and said cheerfully : ' Never mind, General, — all this has been my fault; it is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.' " Pickett's charge was the sledge-hammer blow with which Lee had planned to crush the Union army. When... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1916 - 522 páginas
...cheerfully, 'Never mind, general. All this has been my fault — it is I that have lost this tight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.'"(") The conflict had ceased in Codori's fields, but south of Round Top and out on Rummel's farm the cavalry... | |
| Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1917 - 542 páginas
...in the famous Pickett's Charge, he said to one of his generals: "All this has been my fault. It is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it the best you can." But even in the face of this defeat his officers and soldiers still trusted their... | |
| Randolph Harrison McKim - 1917 - 284 páginas
...-exculpation, but a magnanimous acceptance of the whole responsibility. "All this has been my fault. It is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it the best way you can." No one knew better than Lee at that moment that his failure to win a decisive... | |
| 1918 - 708 páginas
...hands with him and said in a cheerful manner, "Never mind, general. All this has been my fault. It is I that have lost this fight and you must help me out of it the best way you can." — LIEUTENANT-COLONEL AL FREMANTLE, Blackwood's Magazine, September, 1863.... | |
| Charles Anthony Shriner - 1918 - 712 páginas
...hands with him and said in a cheerful manner, "Never mind, general. All this has been my fault. It is I that have lost this fight and you must help me out of it the best way you can." — LIEUTENANT-COLONEL AL FREMANTLE, Blacktcood's Magazine, September, 1863.... | |
| Sir Frederick Maurice - 1925 - 358 páginas
...hands with him and said cheerfully, ' Never mind, General, all this has been my fault, it is I who have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it the best way you can.' * Small wonder that the Confederate army soon rallied after its disaster and... | |
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