Trivia 7-21-15 Say What?

[Trivia Master]

Who said:

"He who has been the most aggrieved can be the most magnanimous and make the first overtures of peace."

AND why did he say it?

credit: @GELongstreet

 

[kholland]

Robert E Lee

He was trying to settle the ongoing dispute between Stonewall Jackson and A P Hill.

 

[GELongstreet]

Question submitted my me ... shouldn´t be difficult but is nontheless a simple, though elaborate, truth.

 

[FarawayFriend]

The words were said by Robert E. Lee in order to soothe a conflict between Stonewall Jackson and A. P. Hill

https://books.google.de/books?id=Na...and make the first overtures of peace&f=false

 

[Pat Answer]

General Lee is said to have said this in Oct 1862 an unsuccessful effort to get Jackson and AP Hill to bury the hatchet. Hill was smarting over charges of "neglect of duty" leveled against him by Jackson and demanding a court of inquiry. Lee couldn't get his subordinates to drop the matter but, knowing that everyone had better things to do, quietly shelved the paperwork.

 

[Stony]

General Robert E Lee trying to get a reconciliation between A P Hill and Stonewall Jackson. Jackson had placed A P Hill under arrest.
source-https://books.google.com/books?id=e...+been+the+most+aggrieved+can+be+the+most+magn

 

[Brenal]

Said by R.E Lee whilst mediating between T J Jackson and A P Hill after Jackson had put Hill under arrest

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Robert E Lee supposedly said this in the course of trying to make peace between T J Jackson and A P Hill. In October 1862 after Antietam and several run-ins in which Jackson made negative allegations about him, Hill insisted that Jackson bring specific charges against him. He wanted a court of inquiry. Maury claims that Lee had a meeting with both generals and uttered the Solomonic phrase which appears to have impressed neither one. Perhaps it had some effect as Jackson did drop charges.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Robert E. Lee who intervened for the purpose of conciliation in the arrest of A.P. Hill by "Stonewall" Jackson.

 

[americono]

Adolf Hitler

 

[adisciu9]

R.E. Lee at Fredericksburg during a feud between Jackson and A.P. Hill.

 

[Northern Light]

Robert E. Lee spoke these words when attempting to resolve a dispute between A.P. Hill and T.J. Jackson after Jackson had charged Hill with "Neglect of Duty", amongst other things.

 

[rhettbutler1865]

Who said:

"He who has been the most aggrieved can be the most magnanimous and make the first overtures of peace."

AND why did he say it?

credit: @GELongstreet

Robert E. Lee said this to both A.P. Hill and Stonewall Jackson (together), to settle one of the latters' many differences....supposedly the last one.

 

[MaryDee]

Robert E. Lee, reconciling the quarrel between Stonewall Jackson and AP Hill

https://books.google.com/books?id=G...ggrieved can be the most magnanimous"&f=false

 

[nextcity]

Lee said it to Jackson and Hill at Jackson's headquarters at the Boyd House in Bunker Hill. Jackson had arrested Hill for neglect of duty.

 

[R. Alex Raines]

R.E. Lee, trying to settle a quarrel between Powell Hill and Thomas Jackson.

 

[chellers]

The statement was made by General Robert E. Lee in an attempt to resolve differences between two of his generals, Stonewall Jackson and A.P. Hill. Jackson had filed charges against Hill for Neglect of Duty which Hill angrily denied.

 

[rosefiend]

General Robert E. Lee did. Grieved at the constant fighting between two of his ablest generals, General "Stonewall" Jackson and General A.P. Hill, he'd called them to hear their statements, then gave them that verdict.

 

[lelliott19]

Robert E Lee

Why he said it - an attempt to reconcile differences between Stonewall Jackson and AP Hill

"General Lee was deeply pained by this inharmony between his two ablest officers (Stonewall Jackson and AP Hill) and summoned them before with a view of causing a reconciliation........This wise verdict forever settled their differences." United Service: A Monthly Review of Military and Naval Affairs, Volume 12, L.R. Hamersly & Company, 1894, p 377. ​

 

[ShenValleyGray]

Robert E. Lee
To reconcile the differences between Jackson and A.P. Hill.