...General Lee sends a message: "Tell him to make haste and get well, and come back to me as soon as he can. He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm." The message pleases Jackson, and he tells it to his wife, Anna. Stonewall never talks much about...

...was a success. When news of Jackson's surgery reached Lee, he couldn't hold back his tears. He said, "He has lost his left arm; but I have lost my right arm." General Lee then ordered that his top commander be immediately moved to Guiney Station, Virginia,...

...affectionate regards, and tell him to make haste and get well, and come back to me as soon as he can. He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right." 42 The doctors dressed his wounds again on Friday, May 8, but Jackson was having trouble breathing...

...with a message of "affectionate regards" and wishes for a speedy recovery, Lee said to the clergyman, "He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right." Now Jackson was dead— a great blow to Confederate arms, but Lee's tour de force at Chancellorsville...

...eight days after the amputation. One of Lee's most trusted generals, after the amputation Lee said, "He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm." This document has two generals' signatures. Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble signed the document...

...accidentally shot by one of his own men, and his arm had to be amputated. Lee said of his ablest general, "He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm." Eight days later, Jackson died of pneumonia. Neither army was able to keep ahead of the other...

...intervening time between his injury and death, Jackson's commander, General Robert E. Lee, would say, "He has lost his left arm; but I have lost my right," For some reason, I came across this statement while I was in Iraq. As I began to ponder Lee's words...

...of Lee, " He is the only man I would follow blindfold." Said Lee, on hearing of Jackson's wound, " He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right." These two Virginians, worthy representatives of the two stocks that have built up that State, Lee of...

...the gain of the great victory. Lee said sadly, on learning of his wound: "He is better off than I am. He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right." In person Jackson is described by an intimate friend as "a tall man, six feet high, angular, strong,...

...purpose or no response is given. Part C— Civil War A Great Loss Part C: Document-Based Question (COM.) "He has lost his left arm; but I have lost my right arm." — Robert E. Lee in May 1863 In the quotation above, Lee was reacting to the fact that General...