 | William Eleazar Barton - 1928 - 48 pages
...officers now thwart you as you thwarted Burnside, don't look to me for help." He said that even so, "I shall assist you as far as I can, to put it down." Lincoln wrote this letter at a sitting, as I feel confident. There is no break in the thought or in... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 526 pages
...neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising...withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 940 pages
...neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising...as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, were he alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now,... | |
 | Dale Carnegie - 1982 - 308 pages
...commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. 1 shall assist you, as far as I can, to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again,... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1972 - 1100 pages
...neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising...withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon yon. I shall assist yon as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive... | |
 | Dale Carnegie - 2010 - 293 pages
...commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticizing their commander and withholding confidence from him,...again, could get any good out of an army while such spirit prevails in it, and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless... | |
 | Walter H. Hebert - 1999 - 396 pages
...appointment: "I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the Army, of criticizing their Commander, and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you." At any rate Hooker asked Lincoln to name the dissatisfied generals. Lincoln apparently did not do so... | |
 | Wilmer L. Jones - 2006 - 392 pages
...but added, "I must fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the Army, of criticizing their Commander, and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. . . . Neither you, nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such... | |
 | 532 pages
...neither more nor less than it has done and will 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 in him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you, so far as I can, to put it down. Neither you, nor... | |
 | Cormac O'Brien - 2007 - 322 pages
...survival. "I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the Army, of criticizing their Commander, and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you," chided the chief executive. And yet, the new commander was to "go forward, and give us victories."... | |
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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. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and... 
