 | 1862 - 396 strani
...ORDERS REGARDING HIS DEATH. " Chancellorsville, May 4. " To Lieutenant-General TJ Jackson. "General, — I have just received your note- informing me that...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.... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - 1862 - 842 strani
...severe wound, wrote to him — " 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." On hearing of his death, General Lee thus made known the fact to his troops : " With deep grief the... | |
 | William Parker Snow - 1865 - 924 strani
...victory. A note now came from General Lee, expressing deep regret at the misfortune. The contents were : "I have just received your note informing me that...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.... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - 1865 - 884 strani
...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. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
 | William Jewett Tenney - 1865 - 886 strani
...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. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 strani
...might •well write to him, before yet ho knew that the wounds were fatal, " If I could have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to be disabled in your stead." When the war broke out, Jackson was a professor in a military college;... | |
 | John Beauchamp Jones - 1866 - 404 strani
...Gen. Jackson before the death of the latter is as follows : "CHANCKLLORVILLE, May 4lh. " GENERAL : — "I have just received your note informing me that...dictated events, I should have chosen for the good of thecountry to have been disabled in your stead. "I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to... | |
 | Robert Lewis Dabney - 1866 - 772 strani
...to be immortalized along with the fame of the two noble men. It was in these words : — " GENERAL : I have just received your note, informing me that...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.... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1866 - 490 strani
...from the commander whom he loved and admired so warmly, this touching evidence of his sympathy : u I have just received your note, informing me that...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.-... | |
 | Robert Lewis Dabney - 1866 - 556 strani
...be immortalized along with the fame of the two noble men. It was in these words : — " GENERAL, — I have just received your note, informing me that...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.... | |
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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... 
