 | Benjamin F. Cook - 1882 - 194 pages
...taken 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. 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.... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1882 - 280 pages
...taken 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. 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.... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1887 - 834 pages
...taken 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. 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.... | |
 | 1887 - 618 pages
...Lincoln's advice to Hooker on putting him in charge of the Army of the Potomac. " I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the government and thp army needed a dictator. .... Only those generals who gain successes can set up [as]... | |
 | 1888 - 334 pages
...taken 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. 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.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 574 pages
...taken 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. 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.... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 694 pages
...ambitions, and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong, both to the country and a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. 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.... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 548 pages
...taken 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. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying s7 CHAP. iv. that both the army and the Government... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 554 pages
...taken 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. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying 87 CHAP. iv. that both the army and the Government... | |
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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. 
