 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not indispensable, quality. You are ambitious, which,...much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honourable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way... | |
 | 1917 - 996 pages
...reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during your predecessor's command, you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted...much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way... | |
 | 1894 - 1228 pages
...reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think during Burnside's command of the army you took counsel of your ambition, and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. Here Hooker stopped, and vehemently... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1880 - 212 pages
...soldier — which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession — ia which you are right. You have confidence in yourself...much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession — in. which you arc right. You have confidence in yourself — which is...much as you could, in -which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession — in. which you arc right. You have confidence in yourself — which is...much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritoriousand honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 196 pages
...yourself — which is a valuable, if not an indispensable, quality. You are ambitious — which, wTithin reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but...much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way... | |
 | Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appeared to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it...much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...read here : EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, 1). C., January 26, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER, GENERAL: ' I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier,...much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - 1881 - 294 pages
...ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during Gen. Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel...much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such way as... | |
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I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable if not an indispensable quality. You are... 
