 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 508 pages
...have been encouraging to him. On the occasion of his fatal wound, Lee wrote : "Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead." The London Times, though somewhat hypercritical concerning American generalship, conceded "that in... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 1100 pages
...respectfully, EE LEE, General. HEADQUARTERS, May 3, 18ti3. General THOMAS J. JACKSON, Commanding Corps: GENERAL: I have just received your note, informing...that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret ¡it. the occurrence. Gould I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country... | |
 | Edward James Stackpole - History - 1988 - 418 pages
...Jackson's loss in a message that revealed the character of the great leader: "Could I have directed events, I 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."... | |
 | Byron Farwell - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 582 pages
...wounding and the changes of command. Lee, turning to Major Charles Marshall, an aide, dictated a reply: "General: I have just received your note, informing...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... | |
 | Mary L. Williamson - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 132 pages
...gave him great distress but he grew calmer when he heard of the glorious exploits of his old brigade. 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 Selby - United States - 1999 - 296 pages
...once to see him. The following note from General Lee was read to him that morning by Captain Smith: '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.... | |
 | Benjamin Albert Botkin - History - 2000 - 656 pages
...Lee had received during the night with profound grief. There came back the following note: GENERAL: / 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.... | |
 | Wiley Sword - History - 2007 - 472 pages
...will be done." Lee was so emotional about Jackson's wounding that he wrote, "Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of 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... | |
 | Justus Scheibert - Electronic books - 2001 - 268 pages
...1, vol. 25, pt. 2, p. 769): HEADQUARTERS, May 3, 1863. General THOMAS J. JACKSON, Commanding Corps: 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 be disabled in your stead. I congratulate... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
