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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Correspondence of Governor Campbell of Tennessee-original letters. from a committee of citizens. (search)
anticipation of your compliance with a request, made in the spirit of defference, and by those who are best taught, to appreciate your exalted capabilities and past public services. May we be permitted to request an answer to this note, and to assure you with how much cordiality we unite in the sentiment with the committee of arrangement, whose feelings and opinions we have on this occasion the honor to represent. We are, most respectfully, Josiah Nichol, Chairman of the Committee. J. Overton, Secretary of the Committee. From Andrew Jackson. Hermitage, February 14, 1828. My Dear Sir,--I have just received the letter you had the goodness to write me by Mr. Donelson on the 12th instant, with enclosures, for which I thank you. The reply you have made Mr. M. is such as I approve, and which I would, had I been present, requested you to have made. Indeed, under existing circumstances, delicacy and propriety would admit of no other. My real friends want no informatio
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The lost opportunity at Spring Hill, Tenn.--General Cheatham's reply to General Hood. (search)
e misfortune, I must here record an act of candor and nobility upon the part of General Cheatham, which proves him to be equally generous-hearted and brave. I was, necessarily, much pained by the disappointment suffered, and, a few days later, telegraphed to Richmond to withdraw my previous recommendation for his promotion, and to request that another be assigned to the command of his corps. Before the receipt of a reply, this officer called at my headquarters — then at the residence of Mr. Overton, six miles from Nashville — and, standing in my presence, spoke an honest avowal of his error, in the acknowledgment that he felt we had lost a brilliant opportunity at Spring Hill to deal the enemy a crushing blow, and that he was greatly to blame. I telegraphed and wrote to the War Department to withdraw my application for his removal, in the belief that, inspired with an ambition to retrieve his shortcoming, he would prove in the future doubly zealous in the service of his country.