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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
ying; the others were confident. 1 do not think success will come early or easy. It is not proposed to move against Mobile until cool weather. The movement of Rosecrans is very important; his army is excellent, and he is a good officer. A movement in Texas is preparing. I accept the idea of delay, and even of reverse; but the ask to see Germany ein ganze—undivided. I hope this too may come. I miss my weekly talk and instruction. To Mr. Bright, September 22:— The news from Rosecrans is not all that we desire; but I have great confidence in his military ability and in his holdfast character, —and yet I confess that to my military eye, so far e than twenty days he has taken no food. I am sorry that the German sky does not look brighter to you; but I can well imagine your solicitudes. I fear that Rosecrans has met with a disaster; Near Chattanooga. but you know I have said that I expected defeat, with perhaps the loss of an army. Perhaps this is necessary to br<
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
ntinued to assume in an extended conversation that the senator had not reported them. (New York Herald, Feb. 22, 1878. containing letter from Cairo, January 17.) His anachronism in his comments on the Alabama claims has already been pointed out. (Ante, p. 398, note.) General Grant's accuracy as a narrator of military affairs has been contested by several authors. Misunderstandings: Halleck and Grant; J. B. Fry, Magazine of American History, vol. XVI. p. 561. The Mistakes of Grant; by W. S. Rosecrans, North American Review, December, 1885, pp. 580-599. Grant versus The Record; by Carswell McClellan. From Chattanooga to Petersburg; by W. F. Smith. Gen. J. I). Cox's review of Grant's Personal Memoirs, in the New York Nation, Feb. 25 and July 1, 1886. Colonel Forney also, being invited by Babcock to make a statement, wrote that he understood the senator to say that he would cheerfully support the treaties; but he was unable to recall the exact words. Letter to Babcock, June 6, 187