 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1871 - 690 pages
...statement of the Hon. Reverdy uson, that he " had heard General Scott more than once »^y that his success in Mexico was largely due to the skill, valor, and undaunted energy of Eobert E. Lee." Kor these services Lee received steady promotion. For 21 meritorious conduct... | |
 | Fitzhugh Lee - 1894 - 460 pages
...batteries." This veteran general, in referring afterward to this campaign, was heard to say "that his success in Mexico was largely due to the skill, valor, and undaunted courage of Robert E. Lee," and that he was "the greatest military genius in America, the best soldier that he ever saw in the... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks, Thomas Sheppard Meek - Courage - 1897 - 230 pages
...General of the American Army ; and, after the Mexican war was over, General Scott declared that his success in Mexico was largely due " to the skill, valor and undaunted courage of Robert E. Lee." That is a good deal to say about one man, is it not, and fine, too? After the Mexican War was over... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 808 pages
...him a strong attachment. Reverdy Johnson said he had heard General Scott more than once say that his "success in Mexico was largely due to the skill, valor and undaunted energy of Robert E. Lee." Jefferson Davis, in a public address at the Lee memorial meeting November... | |
 | James Barnes - 1904 - 298 pages
...States, General Scott, with almost a prophecy on his lips, spoke as follows: " The success of the army in Mexico was largely due to the skill, valor, and undaunted courage of Robert E. Lee," and he stated as positively his belief that Lee was "the greatest military genius in America, and if... | |
 | Confederate States of America. President - Confederate States of America - 1904 - 686 pages
...referred to him as being "as distinguished for execution as for science and daring," adding that his "success in Mexico was largely due to the skill, valor, and undaunted energy of Robert E. Lee ;" and with emphasis he pronounced him "the greatest military genius in America."... | |
 | John William Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 1906 - 502 pages
...Johnson said that he "had been intimate with General Scott, and had heard him say more than once that his success in Mexico was largely due to the skill, valor, and undaunted energy of Lee. It was a theme upon which he [General Scott] liked to converse, and he stated his purpose... | |
 | Philip Alexander Bruce - United States - 1907 - 394 pages
...recorded that, on more than one occasion, Scott, in his hearing, had declared emphatically, "that his success in Mexico was largely due to the skill, valor, and undaunted energy of Eobert E. Lee. ' ' And to General William Preston, of Kentucky, he said that, " if he were... | |
 | James Baldwin - United States - 1908 - 380 pages
...trouble between our country and Mexico. The planters of the South favored it, because Texas was well Map showing Texas and Mexican boundary suited for cotton-raising,...Grande, but all that region now composing Utah, Nevada, and California, •and most of New Mexico and Arizona, besides a part of Colorado and Wyoming. General... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - Biography & Autobiography - 1911 - 784 pages
...would 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 undaunted energy of Robert E. Lee." Lee himself, however, declared that it was General Scott's stout heart and... | |
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... 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... 
