 | 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,...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
...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...the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. Here Hooker stopped, and vehemently said: " The President is mistaken. I never thwarted... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - 1888 - 970 pages
...think that during General Burnside's command you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the ci a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I h such way as to believe it, of your recently... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied wilh you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier...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... | |
 | Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Edwin Tremain - 1881 - 36 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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...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.... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1882 - 280 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Benjamin F. Cook - 1882 - 194 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...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... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - 1883 - 1012 pages
...which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during General Buruside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your...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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Burnside's 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... 
