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
| 1914 - 538 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...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.... | |
| United States. War Department - 1904 - 534 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.... | |
| Emory Upton - 1904 - 538 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.... | |
| Emory Upton - 1904 - 532 pages
...think that during General Burnside's command of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition an<J thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did...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.... | |
| George Pierce Baker - 1904 - 508 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...as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the 10 country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as... | |
| Albert Stanburrough Cook, Allen Rogers Benham - 1905 - 176 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.... | |
| United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) - 1905 - 862 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...the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 412 pages
...of his presidential term, risen to the full height of his great national duties and responsibility." counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much...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.... | |
| United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) - 1905 - 1066 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...in which you did a great wrong to the country and to-a mo'st-meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to' believe it,... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1906 - 166 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.... | |
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