 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...  The Long Roll - Page 676by Mary Johnston - 1911 - 683 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 good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory, which is due to your skill and... | |
 | Education - 1862 - 396 pages
...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 upon the victory, which is due to your skill and... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...informed of Jackson's 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... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - Soldiers - 1863 - 256 pages
...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 upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy. Most truly yours, RE LEE, General. On Tuesday, his wounds were proceeding very well. He asked : " Can... | |
 | Markinfield Addey - Soldiers - 1863 - 262 pages
...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 upon the victory which is due to your skill and... | |
 | 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 good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 324 pages
...informing me that you were wounded. I cannot 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. "I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - History - 1863 - 312 pages
...informing me that you were wounded. I cannot 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. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 414 pages
...informing me that you were wounded. I cannot 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. " I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 702 pages
...field ; and Leo 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; his appearance to the last had... | |
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