...Marshall, an aide, dictated a reply: "General: 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 would have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon...

...glorious exploits of his old brigade. General: I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence....have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory at Chancellorsville which is due to your skill and energy. Most truly yours, RE Lee,...

...was read to him that morning by Captain Smith: 'I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence....have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory, which is due to your skill and energy.' ' He replied : ' General Lee should give...

...such a cost. But God's will be done." Lee was so emotional about Jackson's wounding that he wrote, "Could I have directed events, I should have chosen...the country to have been disabled in your stead." Most of the South quickly came to grief over the news of Stonewall Jackson's death, and one young girl...

...THOMAS J. JACKSON, Commanding Corps: GENERAL: I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence....should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory, which is due to your skill and energy....

...on the spot. Jackson was taken by ambulance over a series of poor roads to recuperate at Richmond. "Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead," Lee wrote Jackson on May 3. Jackson was too weak to go as far as Richmond,...

...surgeon Hunter McGuire, who gave him morphine. "Could I have directed events," Lee would write him, "I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead."42 Once Jackson reached the Second Corps field hospital the 27-year-old McGuire, a graduate...

...a tree, Lee dictated this letter to Jackson : I have just received your note informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence....should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy....

...replied to his most valued lieutenant: General: I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence....should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory, which is due to your skill and energy....

...offering 'Upon hearing the news of Jackson's surgery, £ee sent a letter to him that said, "Could 1 have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country1 to have been disabled in your stead. " words of support, prayers, and food. At Guiney Station,...