| 1917 - 996 pages
...predecessor's command, you have 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... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...command of the army you have 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 honourable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that... | |
| 1894 - 1228 pages
...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 said: " The President is mistaken. I never thwarted Burnside in... | |
| Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - 1888 - 970 pages
...to believe it, of your recently saying that b and the Government needed a dictator. Of course it wa but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. generals who gain successes can set up dictators. Wl of you is military success, and I will risk the... | |
| John William Jones - 1879 - 402 pages
...counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong both to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard in such way as to believe it of your recently saying that both the army and the Government needed a dictator.... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 196 pages
...command of the army, you have 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 228 pages
...command of the army, you have 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...command of the army, you have 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 meritoriousand honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently... | |
| Theodore Ayrault Dodge - 1881 - 282 pages
...wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
| Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...command of the Army you have 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...and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator.... | |
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