 | Mary Anna Jackson - Generals - 1891 - 526 pages
...to him. The following note from General Lee was read to him that morning by Lieutenant Smith : ' I have just received your note, informing me that you...regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, 1 should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate... | |
 | Mary Anna Jackson - Biography & Autobiography - 1892 - 516 pages
...to him. The following note from General Lee was read to him that morning by Lieutenant Smith : ' I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret ASKS FOR REPORTS OF THE BATTLE. 4:51 at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have... | |
 | Mary Anna Jackson - Generals - 1895 - 718 pages
...cry, not ten months later, when the glories of Chancellorsville were obscured by Jackson's wound : "Could I have directed events, I should have chosen,...the country, to have been disabled in your stead. " Yet even after the " Seven Days " to Jackson was committed every enterprise that necessitated a detachment... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - United States - 1897 - 606 pages
...unite his force with the division under Anderson. He then dictated the following letter to Jackson: " I have just received your note informing me that you...should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. ' ' I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy.... | |
 | Asa W. Bartlett - History - 1897 - 914 pages
...the east side, " ' There is Jackson standing like a stone wall.' — Bee at Manassas." North side, "'Could I have directed events, I should have chosen,...have been disabled in your stead ; I congratulate you on the victory which is due to your skill and energy.' — Gen. RE Lee." West side, " 'Let us pass... | |
 | Henry Alexander White - United States - 1897 - 588 pages
...his force with the division under Anderson. He then dictated the following letter to Jackson : " I have just received your note informing me that you...cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I s* have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead.... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...you are wounded. I cannot express my regret at its occurrence. Could I have directed events, I would have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you on the victory, which is due to your skill and energy." See the noble spirit of our great commander!... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1897 - 800 pages
...you are wounded. I cannot express my regret at its occurrence. Could I have directed events, I would have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you on the victory, which is due to your skill and energy." See the noble spirit of our great commander!... | |
 | George Francis Robert Henderson - Generals - 1898 - 708 pages
...in my reverence for the generosity that refused its glory.' Lee's reply ran : — ' General, — I have just received your note, informing me that you...should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. ' I congratulate you upon the victory, which is due to your skill and energy.... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 764 pages
...disabled by the springing aside of his horse against a tree, Lee dictated this letter to Jackson : I have just received your note informing me that you...should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy.... | |
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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 be disabled in your stead. I congratulate you... 
