| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1882 - 1050 pages
...Commanding Forces at Columbus, Ky. : SIR: The completion of the iron-clad gunboats at Memphis by Mr. Shirly is regarded as highly important to the defenses of...enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy. Had I not supposed that every facility for obtaining carpenters from the army near Memphis would have... | |
| United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1882 - 1042 pages
...Commanding Forces at Columbus, Ky.: SIR : The completion of the iron-clad gunboats at Memphis by Mr. Shirty is regarded as highly important to the defenses of...enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy. Had I not supposed that every facility for obtaining carpenters from the army near Memphis would have... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - United States - 1886 - 934 pages
...carpenters in his army to work upon the rams. The Secretary wrote to him on December 24th, 1861, that: ' ' The completion of the iron-clad gunboat at Memphis,...Mr. Shirley is regarded as highly important to the defences of the Mississippi. "One of them at Columbus would have enabled you to complete the annihilation... | |
| United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1882 - 1040 pages
...Commanding Forces at Columbus, Ky.: SIR : The completion of the iron-clad gunboats at Memphis by Mr. Shirly is regarded as highly important to the defenses of...enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy. Had I not supposed that every facility for obtaining carpenters from the army near Memphis would have... | |
| Arthur Wyllie - Reference - 2007 - 660 pages
...in the Army" were refused — "on furlough or otherwise" — although the general was reminded that, "One of them at Columbus would have enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy . . . Mr. Shirley," Mallory prophesied correctly, "will fail in completing them within the stipulated... | |
| United States - 1908 - 1006 pages
...Richmond, December 24, 1861. SIR: The completion of the ironclad gunboat at Memphis by Mr. [John T.] Shirley is regarded as highly important to the defenses...enabled you to complete the annihilation of the enemy. Had I not supposed that every facility for obtaining carpenters from the army near Memphis would have... | |
| United States. Naval War Records Office - United States - 1894 - 1070 pages
...gunboats Arkansas and Tennessee. CONTEDERATE STATES NAVY DEPABTMK.VT. Richmond, Deceinber 2J, 1SS1. SIR: The completion of the Ironclad gunboat at Memphis by Mr. Shirley Is regarded ns highly important to the defenses of the Mississippi. One of them at Columbus would have emibled... | |
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