 | William Osborn Stoddard - 1884 - 716 pages
...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...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you a command. Only those generals who gain success can set up as dictators. What I ask of you is military... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1884 - 536 pages
...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...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you a command. Only those generals who gain success can set up as dictators. What I ask of you is military... | |
 | United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 36th (1862-1865) - 1884 - 432 pages
...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...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1885 - 482 pages
...within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but i think that, during General Hurnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel of your...for this, but in spite of it, that i have given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can be dictators. What i now ask of you is military... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1886 - 874 pages
...profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1887 - 834 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...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is... | |
 | 1887 - 668 pages
...General Hooker to the command of the Army of the Potomac, wrote him, under date of January 26th, 1863, " I have heard in such a way as to believe it, of your...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I ask of you is military... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 580 pages
...skilful soldier, 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,...this, but in spite of it, that ''I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1888 - 574 pages
...skilful soldier, 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,...course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that*! have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1888 - 512 pages
...which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during General Bumside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can be dictators. What I now ask of you is military... | |
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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... 
