General Burnside, You Have Taken Counsel of Your Ambition and Thwarted the Government

I have heard in such a way as to believe it of your recently saying that both the Army and the government needed a dictator. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done for all commanders. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.