 | Edmund Burke - History - 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...have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory, which is due to your skill and energy." He also issued the following General Order... | |
 | Education - 1862 - 396 pages
...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...have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory, which is due to your skill and energy. " Most truly yours, RE LEB, General." 1863.]... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...informed of Jackson's severe wound, wrote to him — " I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the...the country to have been disabled in your stead." On hearing of his death, General Lee thus made known the fact to his troops : " With deep grief the... | |
 | 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...have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy." The inexorable fiat had gone forth, and one... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 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...have been disabled In your stead. "I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy." Jackson's response to his attendants on hearing... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - History - 1863 - 312 pages
...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 ^our stead. I congratulate you on the victory which is due to your skill and energy." This supreme... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1863 - 316 pages
...your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my rejrret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have bjen disabled in your stead. 1 1 congratulate you on the victory which is due to your skill and fcne.tfVt... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1863 - 328 pages
...your note, informing me that yon were wonnded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to Imve been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you on the victory which is due to your skill and... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 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...been disabled in your stead. " I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy." Jackson's response to his attendants on hearing... | |
 | William Parker Snow - Confederate States of America - 1865 - 924 pages
...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 victory which is due to your skill and energy." Sunday evening he slept well ; and on Monday he was carried to Chancellor's house, near Guiuney's depot.... | |
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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... 
