 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Herbert Vaughan Abbott - 1908 - 232 pages
...Lincoln to Major General Hooker shows how well simple words will serve a man even in a great emergency: I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac....satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 148 pages
...the world that free men could be prosperous. Eulogy on Henry Clay. Springfield, III. July I, 1852. I HAVE placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac....satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession,... | |
 | 1908 - 102 pages
...JANUARY 26, 1863 EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 1863. Major-General HOOKER. GENERAL:—I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac....quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave 57 and skilful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession,... | |
 | Joseph Gould - 1908 - 496 pages
...Lincoln appointing Gen. Hooker to succeed Gen. Burnside: "I have done this upon what appears to me sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you...satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession,... | |
 | Edward Harold Mott - 1909 - 62 pages
...GENERAL'S WORTH THROUGH His FAULTS. (Letter to General Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863.) General—I have placed you at the head of the. Army of the Potomac....satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession,... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1909 - 274 pages
...from the letter he wrote to General Hooker: General: I have placed you at the head of the Army of '.he Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear...satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession,... | |
 | The Lake English Classics WASHINGTON WEBSTER AND LINCOLN - 1910 - 158 pages
...have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have iloue this upon what appears to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it...you. I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, 25 which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which... | |
 | Joseph Villiers Denney - 1910 - 348 pages
...hare placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appears to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it...you. I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, 25 wh'ch, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1911 - 592 pages
...to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some chings in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1913 - 660 pages
...reasons ; and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and...skilful soldier, which of course I like. I also believe that you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself,... | |
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I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.... 
