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" ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. "
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll - Volume 3 - Lectures (Shakespeare ... - Page 159
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...confidence from him, will now turn upon you. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...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,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 119

1917 - 996 pages
...assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...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...
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Army of Northern Virginia Memorial Volume

John William Jones - 1879 - 402 pages
...assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. The same day, in General Order No. I, Hooker assumed command, saying,...
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1880 - 212 pages
...assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. An Amusing Anecdote of a "Hen-Pecked Husband." "When General Phelps...
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Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. An Amusing Anecdote of a "Hen-Pecked Husband." When General Phelps took...
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About Grant

John Lindsay Swift - 1880 - 218 pages
...assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories. " Yours very truly, "A. LINCOLN." This letter from Abraham Lincoln was written to a distinguished general...
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In Memoriam, Major-General Joseph Hooker

Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...assist you, as far as I can, to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. Having proved himself an organizer, HOOKER'S Chancellorsville campaign...
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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
...assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Yours very truly, [Signed,] • A. LINCOLN. Hooker came of the good old Puritan stock, which lias furnished...
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The Campaign of Chancellorsville

Theodore Ayrault Dodge - 1881 - 282 pages
...assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance go forward, and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. Hooker was appointed Jan. 26, 1863; and Burnside, with a few earnest...
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History of the Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteers (Webster Regiment)

Benjamin F. Cook - 1882 - 194 pages
...assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you, nor Napoleon if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. 1863. With this letter in his pocket Hooker assumed the command, and...
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