 Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe...  Chancellorsville: Lee's Greatest Battle - Page 7by Edward James Stackpole - 1988 - 398 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel...and honorable brother officer. 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.... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 pages
...ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel...and honorable brother officer. 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.... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 476 pages
...reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during General Burnside's command 264 of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition...and honorable brother officer. 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.... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1905 - 934 pages
...ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that, during General Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel...could, in which you did a great wrong to the country 1883] Hooker's march on Richmond. 485 and to a most meritorious and honourable brother officer. I have... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 pages
...ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel...and honorable brother officer. 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.... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1903 - 478 pages
...ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm ; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel...and honorable brother officer. 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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 pages
...ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel...and honorable brother officer. 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.... | |
 | John Richards Boyle - 1903 - 382 pages
...which within reasonable bounds docs good rather than harm. But I think that during General Kurnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your...and honorable brother officer. 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.... | |
 | Oscar Browning - 1903 - 588 pages
...General Burnsido's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted him ns much as you could, in which you did a great wrong...and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and tho Government needed a dictator.... | |
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