 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...year earlier after the right way of treating McClellan : " I have placed you," wrote Lincoln, " 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1879 - 218 pages
...been written by Lincoln : EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 26, 18G3. — Maj.-Gen. Hooker — GENERAL: I have placed you at the head of the Army...what appears to me to be sufficient reasons ; and yell think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied... | |
 | Third Army Corps Union, John Cleveland Robinson - 1881 - 48 pages
...supersession of Burnside by Hooker. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 26, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKEB, GENERAL : — I have placed you at the head of the...the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appeared to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1882 - 280 pages
...Your sincere friend, ' Commanding corps. GEO. B. MCCLELLAN, Major-General. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKKR : — 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 Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...in the War Department : EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 1883. Jkfaj&r-General Hooker. 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... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...in the War Department : EXECUTIVK MANSION, WASHINGTON, DC, January 28, 1863. Major-General Hooker. 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... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 pages
...War Department: Major-General Hooker. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 1868. GENEBAL : 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... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1887 - 834 pages
...insight into character and careful study of the situation that it seems proper to insert it here: " I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course 1 have done this upon what appear to me sufficient reasons, »nd yet I think it best for you to know... | |
 | New York (State) - 1888 - 334 pages
...and was as follows : EXECUTIVE MANSION, ) WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 1863. j Major-General Hooker : GENERAL : — I have placed you at the head of the...the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appeared to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some... | |
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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... 
