 | Philip Alexander Bruce - 1907 - 394 Seiten
...he said that, " if he were on his death- bed, and the President of the United States should tell him that a great battle was to be fought for the liberty or slavery of the country, and ask him as to the Commander, he would say, with his dying breath, ' Let it be Eobert E. Lee.' " The... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1908 - 344 Seiten
...breaking out of the war, "and the President of the United States should tell me that a great battle were to be fought for the liberty or slavery of the country,...with my dying breath, 'Let it be Robert E. Lee.'" Lee, himself, however, declared that it was General Scott's stout heart and military skill which overcame... | |
 | Charles Forster Smith - 1909 - 496 Seiten
...Civil War : I tell you that if I were on my deathbed to-morrow: and the President of the United States should tell me that a great battle was to be fought for the liberty or slavery of the country, and he asked my judgment as to the ability of a commander, I would say with my dying breath, "Let it be... | |
 | Samuel Wells Sherrill - 1909 - 186 Seiten
...before the breaking out of the Civil War, Scott said: "If the President of the United States should ask my judgment as to the ability of a commander I would say with my dying breath, 'Let it be Robert Lee.' " After the Mexican War, he was appointed Superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point.... | |
 | Emory Speer - 1909 - 298 Seiten
...should tell me that a great battle was to be fought for the liberty or slavery of the country, and ask my judgment as to the ability of a commander, I would say with my dying breath, 'Let him be Robert E. Lee.' " _ The Mexican War over, with several brevets for distinguished services he... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1911 - 790 Seiten
...to General Preston, long before the breaking out of the war, "and the President of the United States should tell me that a great battle was to be fought...say with my dying breath, 'Let it be Robert E. Lee.' " To Reverdy Johnson, Scott said that his success in Mexico "was largely due to the skill, valor, and... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1911 - 788 Seiten
...to General Preston, long before the breaking out of the war, "and the President of the United States should tell me that a great battle was to be fought...say with my dying breath, 'Let it be Robert E. Lee.' " To Reverdy Johnson, Scott said that his success in Mexico "was largely due to the skill, valor, and... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1912 - 372 Seiten
...in America," 81 and that " if I were on my deathbed tomorrow, and the President of the United States should tell me that a great battle was to be fought...say, with my dying breath, let it be Robert E. Lee." 32 Nor was this wholly a matter of Scott's personal partiality ; for the comment of other generals... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1912 - 538 Seiten
...to General Preston, long before the breaking out of the war, "and the President of the United States should tell me that a great battle was to be fought...with my dying breath, 'Let it be Robert E. Lee.'" To Reverdy Johnson, Scott said that his success in Mexico "was largely due to the skill, valor, and... | |
 | 1912 - 542 Seiten
...in America," and that "if I were on my death bed to-morrow, and the President of the United States should tell me that a great battle was to be fought...say, with my dying breath, let it be Robert E. Lee." I find in La Guerre de la Secession en Amerique, by E. Grasset (Vol. II, p. 59) a saying attributed... | |
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If I were on my death-bed to-morrow," he said to General Preston, long before the breaking out of the war, "and the President of the United States should tell me that a great battle was to be fought for the liberty or slavery of the country, and asked... 
