 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1880 - 1102 pages
...avoiding all unnecessary exposure to danger, because I felt our country could not bear to lose you. To ask me to substitute you by some one in my judgment...the confidence of the army, or of the reflecting men of the country, is to demand an impossibility. It only remains for me to hope that you will take all... | |
 | John William Jones - 1889 - 752 pages
...avoiding all unnecessary exposure to danger, because I felt our country could not bear to lose you. To ask me to substitute you by some one in my judgment...the confidence of the army, or of the reflecting men of the country, is to demand an impossibility. " Jt only'remains for me to hope that you will take... | |
 | John William Jones - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1890 - 738 pages
...avoiding all unnecessary exposure to danger, because I felt our country could not bear to lose you. To ask me to substitute you by some one in my judgment...command, or who would possess more of the confidence of tho army, or of the reflecting men of the country, is to demand an impossibility. " It only remains... | |
 | Varina Davis - 1890 - 1042 pages
...danger, because I felt your country could not bear to lose you. To ask me to substitute you by someone in my judgment more fit to command, or who would possess more of the confidence of the army, or of reflecting men in the country, is to demand an impossibility. " It only remains for me to hope that... | |
 | Charles E. Davis - United States - 1893 - 570 pages
...avoiding all unnecessary exposure to danger, because I felt our country could not bear to lose you. To ask me to substitute you by some one in my judgment...the confidence of the army, or of the reflecting men of the country, is to demand an impossibility. It only remains for me to hope that you will take all... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...avoiding all unnecessary exposure to danger, because I felt our country could not bear to lose you. To ask. me to substitute you by some one in my judgment...the confidence of the army, or of the reflecting men of the country, is to demand an impossibility. It only remains for me to hope that you will take all... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - United States - 1897 - 606 pages
...find that new commander who is to possess the greater ability which you believe to be required. . . . To ask me to substitute you by some one in my judgment more ftt to command, or who would possess more of the confidence of the army, or of the reflecting men of... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - Generals - 1899 - 182 pages
...in August that Mr. Davis should relieve him by a younger man; but the Confederate President properly replied, "To ask me to substitute you by some one,...the confidence of the army or of the reflecting men of the country, is to demand an impossibility." So Lee remained in charge, and raised his army to nearly... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 764 pages
...find that new commander who is to possess the greater ability which you believe to be required? . . . To ask me to substitute you by some one in my judgment...possess more of the confidence of the army, or of reflecting men of the country, is to demand an impossibility. Lee's morning reports show that by the... | |
 | Military Historical Society of Massachusetts - United States - 1903 - 522 pages
...avoiding all unnecessary exposure to danger, because I felt that our country could not bear to lose you. To ask me to substitute you by some one in my judgment...the confidence of the army, or of the reflecting men of the country, is to demand an impossibility." The theatre of the operations of the campaign which... | |
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To ask me to substitute you by some one in my judgment more fit to command, or who would possess more of the confidence of the army, or of the reflecting men of the country, is to demand an impossibility. 
