 | Benjamin F. Cook - Massachusetts - 1882 - 194 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1882 - 280 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The Government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...which you did a great wrong both to the country and a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you a command. Only those generals who gain success can set up as dictators. What I ask of you is military... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...which you did a great wrong both to the country and a most meritorious and honorable brother-officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you a command. Only those generals who gain success can set up as dictators. What I ask of you is military... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1887 - 834 pages
...which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it. of your...military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it... | |
 | North American review - 1887 - 668 pages
...General Hooker to the command of the Army of the Potomac, wrote him, under date of January 26th, 1863, " I have heard in such a way as to believe it, of your...generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." General Lee was a typical American,... | |
 | Religion - 1887 - 618 pages
...dictatorship when he read Lincoln's advice to Hooker on putting him in charge of the Army of the Potomac. " I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the government and thp army needed a dictator. .... Only those generals who gain successes can set up [as]... | |
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I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that ''I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes... 
