 | Business writing - 2006 - 340 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 recently saying that both the Array and the Government need a Dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that... | |
 | Steven Rosefielde, D. Quinn Mills - Business & Economics - 2007 - 580 pages
...informed of Hooker's comment, and when Lincoln promoted him, Lincoln wrote to him, "It was not because of this but in spite of it that I have given you the command. . . . What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship."4 In 1920 General... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 264 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 yoar recently saying that both the army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course, it was not... | |
 | David J. Eicher - History - 2007 - 376 pages
...turned to Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, a brash, forty-eight-year-old, hard-drinking egotist. Lincoln wrote Hooker, "I have heard, in such a way as to believe...in spite of it, that I have given you the command. . . . Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories."3... | |
 | Scott A. Bonar - Science - 2012 - 210 pages
...wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes, can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship."... | |
 | 532 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...for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military... | |
 | Frank Van der Linden - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 332 pages
...Joseph Hooker, even though "Fighting Joe" had been conspiring to oust Burnside and was calling for a dictator. "Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command," Lincoln told Hooker. "What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship."... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes, can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.... | |
 | Richard W. Kelsey - Self-Help - 2008 - 155 pages
...wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that...given you the command. Only those generals, who gain successes, can set up dictators. (THE CHAIN) What I now ask of you is military success, and I will... | |
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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... 
