 I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying, that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have; given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes...  Chancellorsville: Lee's Greatest Battle - Page 7by Edward James Stackpole - 1988 - 398 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Herbert Vaughan Abbott - 1908 - 234 pages
...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 military...government will support you to the utmost of its ability, winch is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 78 pages
...Hunter, Dec. JI, 1861, vol. VII, p. JO. MILITARY SUCCESSES WANTED Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. Letter to Gen. Hooker, Jan. 26, 1 86 3, vol. ViII, p. 207. No HOLIDAYS IN WAR TIMES War does not admit... | |
 | James Morgan - 1908 - 510 pages
...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 military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." 344 These plain words of reproof and warning combined, as only Lincoln could, firmness with good humor.... | |
 | George Waldo Broune - 1908 - 424 pages
...country. I have heard of your recently saying that both the army and the country needed a dictator. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. "I much fear that the spirit you have aided in infusing into the army will now turn upon you." He feared... | |
 | 1907 - 404 pages
...those generals who gain successes can set up dictators," and added, with a humor as grim as death, "What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." If the general did not tear up his commission when he read that letter it was because he was brave... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - 1909 - 330 pages
...in spite of it that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success...dictatorship. The government will support you to the best of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all its commanders.... | |
 | Richard Watson Gilder - 1909 - 196 pages
...and kick the other." It was also to Hooker that he wrote: " Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." In a letter written in 1859 to a Boston committee he said, in describing a change in party standards:... | |
 | National Republican Club, Republican Club of the City of New York - 1909 - 372 pages
...those generals who gain successes can set up dictators," and added, with a humor as grim as death, "what I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." If the General did not tear up his commission when he read that letter it was because he was brave... | |
 | Republican Club of the City of New York - 1909 - 392 pages
...those generals who gain successes can set up dictators," and added, with a humor as grim as death, "what I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." If the General did not tear up his commission when he read that letter it was because he was brave... | |
 | Charles Henry Fowler - 1910 - 376 pages
...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 is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." His magnanimity is without a parallel. imperti- One can hardly understand how he endured the "e""*... | |
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