 | Education - 1862 - 396 pages
...OFFICIAL ORDERS REGARDING HIS DEATH. " Chancellorsville, May 4. " To Lieutenant-General TJ Jackson. "General, — I have just received your note- informing...express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...severe wound, wrote to him — " I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead." On hearing of his death, General Lee thus made known the fact to his troops : " With deep grief the... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - Soldiers - 1863 - 256 pages
...accident that had befallen him : CHANCELLORSVILLE, VA., May 4, 1863. To Lieutenant-General TJ JACKSON : GENERAL : I have just received your note, informing...express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - History - 1863 - 312 pages
...OFFICIAL PAPERS, CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES, AND PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE. BY A VIRGINIAN. E%ten>iSf36-<SS-411 1 have Just received your note, informing me that you...express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1863 - 316 pages
...OFFICIAL PAPERS, CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES, AND PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE. BY A VIRGINIAN. " I have jusl received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my rejrret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1863 - 328 pages
...title page of this book. It was in these words : "I have just received your note, informing me that yon were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
 | William Parker Snow - Confederate States of America - 1865 - 924 pages
...victory. A note now came from General Lee, expressing deep regret at the misfortune. The contents were : "I have just received your note informing me that...express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...Líevtenant-веп. TJ Jackton : GENERAL : I have just received your note, informing me that you are wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...might •well write to him, before yet ho knew that the wounds were fatal, " If I could have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to be disabled in your stead." When the war broke out, Jackson was a professor in a military college;... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 884 pages
...To Lieutenant- Gen. TJ Jacho* : GENERAL : I have just received your note, informing me that you are wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
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I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you... 
