 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1901 - 476 pages
...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 success, and I will risk the dictatorship." Lincoln also believed Hooker had not given cordial support to General Burnside when he was in command... | |
 | Herman Haupt - 1901 - 346 pages
...given you the command. Only those Generals who gain success can set up dictators. What I now ask of yon is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the extent of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do to all commanders.... | |
 | Herman Haupt - 1901 - 354 pages
...is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the extent of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do to all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...course it was not 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...do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army. of criticising their commander and withholding confidence... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 pages
...course it was not 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...do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - 1903 - 796 pages
...course it was not 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...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." This missive, notifying him of his appointment, written confidentially to Hooker on January 25, 1863,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 pages
...course it was not 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...do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 pages
...course it was not 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...do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence... | |
 | John Richards Boyle - 1903 - 382 pages
...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,...do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence... | |
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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... 
