 | Edmund Burke - 1864 - 776 pages
...28,000 men. When General Lee heard of Jackson's wound, he wrote to him, and said : — " If I could have directed events, I should have chosen, for the...victory, which is due to your skill and energy." He also issued the following General Order upon the llth of May : — " With deep grief the Commanding-... | |
 | 1862 - 396 pages
...ORDERS REGARDING HIS DEATH. " Chancellorsville, May 4. " To Lieutenant-General TJ Jackson. "General, — I have just received your note- informing me that...the victory, which is due to your skill and energy. " Most truly yours, RE LEB, General." 1863.] JOURNAL OF EDUCATION "No. 61. Head Quarters, Northern... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 pages
...misfortune, immediately wrote him as follows : — " I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. If I could have directed events, I should have chosen, for the...the victory which is due to your skill and energy." The inexorable fiat had gone forth, and one of the ablest generals of the south ceased to exist. The... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1863 - 324 pages
...informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have dictated events, I should have chosen for the good of the country...the victory which is due to your skill and energy." Jackson's response to his attendants on hearing the note read is said to have been, "Gen. Lee should... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1863 - 312 pages
...informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have dictated events, I should have chosen, for the good of the...the victory which is due to your skill and energy." It was on the field of Cold Harbor that this great and noble friendship had its beginning. The men... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1864 - 414 pages
...informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have dictated events, I should have chosen for the good of the country...the victory which is due to your skill and energy." Jackson's response to his attendants on hearing the note read is said to have been, " Gen. Lee should... | |
 | William Parker Snow - 1865 - 924 pages
...addressed him a note, as follows : " General : I have just received your note, informing me that you are wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence....the victory which is due to your skill and energy." And, when it was known that he •was dead, a general order was issued by Lee, expressive of the great... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - 1865 - 886 pages
...Líevtenant-веп. TJ Jackton : GENERAL : I have just received your note, informing me that you are wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence....the victory which is due to your skill and energy. Most truly yours, *. BE LEE, General. Gen. Jackson had gone some distance in front of his line of skirmishers,... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - 1865 - 884 pages
...To Lieutenant- Gen. TJ Jacho* : GENERAL : I have just received your note, informing me that you are wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence....the victory which is due to your skill and energy. Most truly yours, RE LEE, General. Gen. Jackson had gone some distance in front of his line of skirmishers,... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1865 - 500 pages
...he received a note from General Lee, expressing regrets that he was wounded, and congratulating him upon the victory " which is due to your skill and energy." He remained at "Wilderness Eun until the third, when he was removed to Guinness's Station, where he died... | |
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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 should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate... 
