...Jackson's began. If we turn for information to the two principal actors, we shall not progress much. " I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy," 74 says Lee; but this passing of compliments means no more than Jackson's general acknowledgment: "...

...your note informing me that you are 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 upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy....

...close of this battle. Lee wrote to Jackson: "I cannot express my regret at this occurrence; could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the...have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you on the victory, which is due to your skill and energy." This was before the full seriousness of Jackson's...

...general on the 3d, in the midst of battle had already declared that, could he have directed events, he should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in Jackson's stead. In closing his message, he congratulated Jackson upon the victory his "skill and energy"...

...general on the 3d, in the midst of the battle, had declared that could he have directed events, he should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in Jackson's stead. In closing his message, he congratulated Jackson upon the victory his "skill and energy"...

...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." He replied, "General Lee should give the praise to God." About ten o'clock his right side began to pain...

...He is the only man whom I would follow blindfold." When Jackson was wounded Lee wrote him: Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the...have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you on the victory, which is due to your skill and energy. When this was read to him, Jackson said, Better...

...jealousies of his associates. When Stonewall Jackson was wounded, Lee sent him word at once: " Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the...the country, to have been disabled in your stead." At the time of the defeat of the Southern army at Gettysburg, when one of his generals attempted to...

...discovered anything of the kind in Lee's message to Stonewall Jackson after Chancellorsville,—"Could I have directed events, I 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."...

...directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. ' 1 congratulate you upon the victory, which is due to your skill and energy. ' Very respectfully, your obedient servant, ' EE LEE, General' Such was the tribute, not the less valued...