 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 ... - 第 434 頁John Esten Cooke 著 - 1866 - 470 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Jennings Cropper Wise - 1915 - 650 頁
...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"... | |
 | Thomas Jackson Arnold - 1916 - 414 頁
...read to him that morning by Captain Smith : " I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence....have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy." He replied, "General Lee should give the praise... | |
 | 1917 - 488 頁
...professional jealousies of his associates. When Stonewall Jackson was wounded, Lee sent him word at once: " Could I have directed events, I should have chosen,...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... | |
 | Joseph A. Osgoode - 1918 - 232 頁
...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."... | |
 | Elihu Samuel Riley - 1920 - 212 頁
...96-7. Tributes to Stonewall Jackson. — From Lee to Jackson on his dying-bed: "Could I have dictated events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead." "The negro Sunday School which he taught with such devotion, exerted an influence on the negroes of... | |
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - 1927 - 606 頁
...time to write to his Lieutenant: "General, — I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence....should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory, which is ill due to your skill and... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 508 頁
...few whom he loved must have been encouraging to him. On the occasion of his fatal wound, Lee wrote : "Could I have directed events, I should have chosen...the country to have been disabled in your stead." The London Times, though somewhat hypercritical concerning American generalship, conceded "that in... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1972 - 1100 頁
...your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret ¡it. the occurrence. Gould 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.... | |
 | Edward James Stackpole - 1988 - 418 頁
...expressing his deep regret at Jackson's loss in a message that revealed the character of the great leader: "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."... | |
 | Byron Farwell - 1993 - 582 頁
...Marshall, an aide, dictated a reply: "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 would have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon... | |
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