 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...  Stonewall Jackson: a Military Biography - Page 436by John Esten Cooke - 1876 - 587 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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
...ORDERS REGARDING HIS DEATH. " Chancellorsville, May 4. " To Lieutenant-General TJ Jackson. "General, — I have just received your note- informing me that...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
...reverence to his memory. General Lee, upon being informed of Jackson's severe wound, wrote to him — " I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could...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... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1863 - 328 pages
...ACQUAINTANCE. BY A VIRGINIAN. " I have just received your note, informing me that yon were wonnded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could...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... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - History - 1863 - 312 pages
...was struck at Chancellorsville by the fatal bullet which forced him to quit the field, Lee wrote : "I have just received your note informing me that...express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have dictated events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 324 pages
...of Gen. Lee, which is characteristic of his own generosity and worth. Gen. Lee wrote him: "General: I have just received your note informing me that you...express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have dictated events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled In your stead.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1863 - 316 pages
...OFFICIAL PAPERS, CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES, AND PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE. BY A VIRGINIAN. " I have jusl received 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... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 414 pages
...Gen. Lee, which is characteristic of his own generosity and worth. Gen. Lee wrote him : " General : I have just received your note informing me that you...express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have dictated events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 878 pages
...: GIXERAL : I have just received your note, informing me that you are wounded. I cannot express 017 regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen f..r Uic good of tbe country to have been disabled in M-ur stead. I congratulate you upon the victory... | |
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