 Desertion is increasing in the army notwithstanding all my efforts to stop it. I think a rigid execution of the law is mercy in the end. The great want in our army is firm discipline.  Scribner's Magazine - Strana 583úprava: - 1911Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | John Beauchamp Jones - 1866 - Počet stránok 484
...to the numerous reprieves, no one being executed for two months." Gen. Lee indorses on the paper : " Desertion is increasing in the army, notwithstanding...end. The great want in our army is firm discipline." The Secretary of War sent it to the President "for his information." The President sent it back with... | |
 | John Beauchamp Jones - 1866 - Počet stránok 494
...to the numerous reprieves, no one being executed for two months." Gen. Lee indorses on the paper : " Desertion is increasing in the army, notwithstanding...end. The great want in our army is firm discipline." The Secretary of War sent it to the President "for his information." The President sent it back with... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1867 - Počet stránok 864
...to the numerous reprieves, no one being executed for two months." Gen. Lee indorsed on the paper : " Desertion is increasing in the army, notwithstanding...end. The great want in our army is firm discipline" The Secretary of War sent it to the President " for his information." The President sent it back with... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1866 - Počet stránok 752
...the numerous reprieves, no one being executed for two months." General Lee indorsed on this paper, " Desertion is increasing in the army, notwithstanding...end. The great want in our army is firm discipline." This paper was submitted to the Secretary of War, who referred it to the President " for his information."... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1867 - Počet stránok 894
...to the numerous reprieves, no one being executed for two months." Gen. Lee indorsed on the paper : " Desertion is increasing in the army, notwithstanding...end. The great want in our army is firm discipline." The Secretary of War sent it to the President " for his information." The President sent it back with... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1871 - Počet stránok 936
...to the numerous reprieves, no one being executed for two months." Gen. Lee indorsed on the paper : "Desertion is increasing in the army, notwithstanding...end. The great want in our army is firm discipline." The Secretary of War sent it to the President " for his information." The President sent it back with... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1911 - Počet stránok 784
...year it was, in the opinion of Lee, "diminishing rather than increasing the strength of his army." 2 The pernicious system of details which prevailed contrary...November 29, 1864, replied: "When deserters are arrested they should be tried, and if the sentences are reviewed and remitted, that is not a proper subject... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1911 - Počet stránok 790
...the govern1 " Life of General Lee," by JD McCabe (1866), p. 573. 'Letter of December 31, 1864. merit at Richmond prevented the execution of sentence on...November 29, 1864, replied: "When deserters are arrested they should be tried, and if the sentences are reviewed and remitted, that is not a proper subject... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1911 - Počet stránok 788
...the govern* " Life of General Lee," by JD McCabe (1866), p. 573. 'Letter of December 31, 1864. meat at Richmond prevented the execution of sentence on...November 29, 1864, replied: "When deserters are arrested they should be tried, and if the sentences are reviewed and remitted, that is not a proper subject... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1911 - Počet stránok 782
...the govern1 " Life of General Lee," by JD McCabe (1866), p. 573. 'Letter of December 31, 1864. ment at Richmond prevented the execution of sentence on...War to the President for his information, Mr. Davis, OB November 29, 1864, replied: "When deserters are arrested they should be tried, and if the sentences... | |
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