 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1882 - 280 pages
...assist you, as far as I can, to put it down. Neither you, nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army, while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories. General Hooker immediately repaired to Washington, and in a personal interview disabused the President's... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...assist you, as far as I can, to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. General Hooker had succeeded in winning the good-will and confidence... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...assist you, as far as I can, to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. General Hooker had succeeded in winning the good-will and confidence... | |
 | United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 36th (1862-1865) - United States - 1884 - 432 pages
...assist you, as far as I can, to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...but, with energy and sleepless vigilance, go forward arid give us victories. Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN. January 27th we received General Hooker's address... | |
 | David Craft - Pennsylvania - 1885 - 310 pages
...the Army of the Potomac the President transmitted a private letter, the closing sentence of which, "Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories," expressed the desire of every loyal heart; but Hooker in common with every commander of that Grand... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1887 - 834 pages
...shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, were he alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories." The hopes of the country were high that the Army of the Potomac now had a general that would lead it... | |
 | North American review - 1887 - 668 pages
...shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, u he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. NOTES AND COMMENTS. RELIGION. CERTAIN theologians and lexicographers... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN." Could any letter be more simple, dignified, firm, and yet entirely lenient?... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - United States - 1888 - 580 pages
...I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, were he alive again, could get any good out of any army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now,...sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories." Hooker restored the discipline of the Army of the Potomac, which had been greatly relaxed, reorganized... | |
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... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. 
