 GENERAL : Since my interview with you on the 18th instant, I have felt that I ought not longer to retain my commission in the army. I therefore tender my resignation, which I request you will recommend for acceptance. It would have been presented at once...  Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland - Seite 95von Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Reunion - 1870Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1912 - 542 Seiten
...with you on the 18th inst., I have felt that I ought not longer to retain my commission in the army. I therefore tender my resignation, which I request...the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted the best years of my life and all the ability I possessed. During... | |
 | 1912 - 346 Seiten
...with you on the 18th inst., I have felt that I ought no longer to retain my commission in the army. I, therefore, tender my resignation, which I request...the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted all the best years of my life, and all the ability I possessed. During... | |
 | North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1913 - 644 Seiten
...Convention had been passed, he refers to his interview with General Scott and declares that his resignation "would have been presented at once but for the struggle it has caused me to separate myself from a service to which I had devoted the best years of my life, and all... | |
 | Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, Mary Cornelia Thompson Hamilton - 1917 - 246 Seiten
...with you on the I8th inst., I have felt that I ought no longer to retain my commission in the Army. I therefore tender my resignation, which I request...the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted all the best years of my life and all the ability I possessed. During... | |
 | 1917 - 1064 Seiten
...great question was decided. In submitting his resignation to General Scott on April 20, 1861, he wrote: It would have been presented at once but for the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted the best years of my life and all the ability I possessed. Lee risked... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - 460 Seiten
...Scott. On the twentieth he resigned, writing privately to Sco.tt at the same time: "My resignation would have been presented at once but for the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted the best years of my life. During the whole of that time I have experienced... | |
 | William Wood - 1921 - 498 Seiten
...Winfield Scott. On the twentieth he resigned, writing privately to Scott at the same time: "My resignation would have been presented at once but for the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted the best years of my life. During the whole of that time I have experienced... | |
 | Minnie Kendall Lowther - 1922 - 106 Seiten
...with you on the 18th instant, I have felt that I ought no longer to retain my commission in the army. I therefore tender my resignation, which I request...will recommend for acceptance. It would have been ARLINGTON MANSION OFFICERS' SECTION NURSES OF SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT... | |
 | Sir Frederick Maurice - 1925 - 358 Seiten
...with you on the i8th inst. I have felt that I ought not longer to retain my commission in the army. I, therefore, tender my resignation, which I request...the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted the best years of my life and all the ability I possessed. During... | |
 | Anna Maria Rose Wright - 1925 - 472 Seiten
...dated April 20, 1861, Colonel Lee added the following personal note to General Winfield Scott : "This would have been presented at once but for the struggle it has cost me to separate myself from a service to which I have devoted the best years of my life, and all the ability I possessed. During... | |
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