 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 Seiten
...o'clock I received the following note from General Longstreet : " COLONEL — If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off" the enemy or...make the charge. I shall rely a great deal on your good judgment to determine the matter, and shall expect you to let General Pickett know when the moment... | |
 | Rev. J. WM. Jones - 1877 - 338 Seiten
...following note from General Longstreet: "HEADQUARTERS, July M, 1863. "COLONEL: If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy, or greatly demoralize him, so as to make our effort pretty certain, I would prefer that you should not advise General Pickett to make the charge.... | |
 | 1879 - 810 Seiten
...hopelessness of the charge, that I wrote the following note to General Alexander : " If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy or...our efforts pretty certain, I would prefer that you shoxild not advise General Pickett to make the charge. I shall rely a great deal on your judgment to... | |
 | Jacob Hoke - 1887 - 644 Seiten
...hopeless'ness of the charge, that I wrote the following note to General Alexander: ' If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy or greatly demoralize him, so as to make our eftbrts pretty certain, I would prefer that you should not advise General Pickett to make the charge.... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1888 - 522 Seiten
...could not do it, and at noon sent this note to Colonel Alexander : " COLONEL, — If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy or...advise General Pickett to make the charge. I shall rely greatly on your good judgment to determine the matter, and shall expect you to let General Pickett... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1911 - 954 Seiten
...preceding Pickett's charge. /. Longstreet to Alexander, about noon. " Colonel. If the Artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy or greatly demoralize him, so as to make our effort pretty certain, I would prefer that you should not advise Gen. Pickett to make the charge. I... | |
 | La Salle Corbell Pickett - 1899 - 462 Seiten
...1863. " COLONEL: If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy or gradually demoralize him so as to make our efforts pretty certain,...make the charge. I shall rely a great deal on your good judgment to determine the matter, and shall expect yon to let General Pickett know when the moment... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - 1907 - 674 Seiten
...startled by the receipt of a note from Longstreet as follows : — "Colonel: If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy or greatly demoralize him, so as to make our effort pretty certain, I would prefer that you should not advise Pickett to make the charge. I shall... | |
 | Andrew Hilliard Atteridge - 1913 - 508 Seiten
...the signal guns he had sent a note to Colonel Alexander in which he said : " If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy or...make the charge. I shall rely a great deal on your good judgment to determine the point, and shall expect you to let General Pickett know when the moment... | |
 | John Joseph Bowen - 1914 - 310 Seiten
...the First corps, received the following note from General Longstreet: "COLONEL: If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy, or greatly demoralize him, so as to make our effort pretty certain, I would prefer that you would not advise General Pickett to make the charge."... | |
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COLONEL: If the artillery fire does not have the effect to drive off the enemy or greatly demoralize him, so as to make our efforts pretty certain, I would prefer that you should not advise General Pickett to make the charge. I shall rely a great deal... 
