 | 1917 - 996 pages
...of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. The Spectator added no comment, and none was needed, for every word of that immortal letter rang like... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again,...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories." " He talks to me like a father," exclaimed Hooker, enchanted with a rebuke such as this. He was a fine,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither...give us victories. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. An Amusing Anecdote of a "Hen-Pecked Husband." When General Phelps took possession of Ship Island,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1880 - 212 pages
...of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither...give us victories. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. An Amusing Anecdote of a "Hen-Pecked Husband." "When General Phelps took possession of Ship Island,... | |
 | John Lindsay Swift - 1880 - 218 pages
...of criticising their commander and withdrawing confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither...give us victories. " Yours very truly, "A. LINCOLN." This letter from Abraham Lincoln was written to a distinguished general placed at the head of the Army... | |
 | Theodore Ayrault Dodge - 1881 - 294 pages
...of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither...and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. Hooker was appointed Jan. 26, 1863 ; and Burnside, with a few earnest words, took leave of the army.... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you, as far as I can, to put it down. Neither...give us victories. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Having proved himself an organizer, HOOKER'S Chancellorsville campaign exhibited him. as a strategist... | |
 | Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither...go forward and give us victories. Yours very truly, [Signed,] • A. LINCOLN. Hooker came of the good old Puritan stock, which lias furnished so many great... | |
 | Benjamin F. Cook - 1882 - 194 pages
...of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither...and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. 1863. With this letter in his pocket Hooker assumed the command, and straightway order began to come... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1882 - 280 pages
...of criticising their commander, and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you, as far as I can, to put it down. Neither...sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories. General Hooker immediately repaired to Washington, and in a personal interview disabused the President's... | |
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... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. 
