 | Grant Martin Overton - 1921 - 486 pages
...grow! One day Walt saw a copy of a letter just written (26 January, 1863) to General Hooker. It ran: " General: I have placed you at the head of the Army...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... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 450 pages
...here it is: "Executive Mansion, Washington, January 26, 1863. Major-General Hooker : s General : — 1 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... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...independent is one of the soundest indications of manly character. — Samuel Smiles. .'••» .-••» GENERAL:— I have placed you at the head of the Army...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... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pages
....'/e- £» The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. — Michelangelo. £RAL: — 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... | |
 | 1924 - 322 pages
...agreeable in society you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. — Lavater. 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... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - 1925 - 566 pages
...with blunt and stern reproof :* EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C, January 26, 1863. Major General Hooker. — General: I have placed you at the head...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... | |
 | Clarence Edward Noble Macartney - 1925 - 256 pages
...the head of the State such a letter. The letter, which shows Lincoln at his best, ran as follows : General : I have placed you at the head of the Army...the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me sufficient reasons, and yet I think it is best for you to know that there are some things... | |
 | Anna Maria Rose Wright - 1925 - 472 pages
...him correct. He was succeeded by Joseph Hooker, and on making this appointment Lincoln wrote Hooker: "I have placed you at the head of the army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know there are some things in regard... | |
 | 1926 - 328 pages
...better to forego, for the time, the uses of such offices. ABRAHAM LINCOLN LETTER TO GENERAL HOOKER 1 GENERAL : I have placed you at the head of the Army...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... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1927 - 392 pages
...would make a good one. In appointing him, Lincoln wrote Hooker a characteristic letter: "Major General Hooker. General : — I have placed you at the head...the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what * Lincoln in letter to the Working Men of Manchester, England, Executive Mansion, Washington, Jan.... | |
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General : 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... 
