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" I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes... "
Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray - Page 282
by William Charles Henry Wood - 1921 - 424 pages
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...spite of it, that I gave you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will...spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. Neither you...
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History of the Civil War in America, Volume 3

Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - 1888 - 970 pages
...is military success, and I will risk the dicta; Government will support you to the utmost of its abi neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to in army, of criticising their commander and withholdir...
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will...spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist...
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will...spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist...
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1880 - 212 pages
...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now iisk of you is military success, and I will risk the Dictatorship....spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist...
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 196 pages
...it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up Dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will...has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear tha: the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding...
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Army of Northern Virginia Memorial Volume

John William Jones - 1879 - 402 pages
...that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will...Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, %vhich is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear the spirit...
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About Grant

John Lindsay Swift - 1880 - 218 pages
...— GRANT'S Speech on receiving Commission as Lieutenant General. CHAPTER VII. CLOSING THE GAPS. " I MUCH fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withdrawing confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist...
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Obituary Notice of Maj.-Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman, First Commander of the ...

Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will...spirit which you have aided to infuse into the Army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist...
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In Memoriam, Major-General Joseph Hooker

Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will...spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist...
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