 | John William Jones - 1906 - 504 pages
...can to put it down. Neither you, nor Napoleon if he were alive again, could get any good out of any army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now beware of rashness! but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 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. [Indorsement on General J. Hooker's Plan of Campaign against Richmond.]... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 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 72. Strategy for Hooker: MEMORANDUM, APRIL, 1863 LINCOLN probably wrote... | |
 | Dale Carnegie - 1982 - 308 pages
...down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such spirit prevails in it, and now beware of rashness....sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. You are not a Coolidge, a McKinley or a Lincoln. You want to know whether this philosophy will operate... | |
 | Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones - 1991 - 788 pages
...dictatorship."17 Hooker also received from the President a general charge: to seek "military success" but "beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories." Lincoln in a sense was echoing his earlier instructions to Burnside to "be cautious," and, though victories... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1972 - 1100 pages
...assist yon 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. GENERAL ORDERS, > HDQRS. ARMY OP THE POTOMAC, No. 9. ) Camp near Falmouth,... | |
 | Edward James Stackpole - 1988 - 418 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 Noah Brooks, a close friend of the President, happened to be present at... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...1961.— Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 312. 1873 Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to General Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863.— The Collected Works... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 242 pages
...men deserved better than that handsome incompetent. "Beware of rashness," Lincoln admonished Hooker, "but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories." When Hooker promised to go forward, talking grandiosely about what he would do once he captured Richmond,... | |
 | Civil War Institute Gettysburg College Gabor S. Boritt Director - 1994 - 278 pages
...set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. . . . And now, beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but...sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories. There was nothing political about Hooker's appointment. Hooker's biographer was not able to determine... | |
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... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. 
