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General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!


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Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.



I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.



General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.

General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.



This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.

This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.



Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?



I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.



I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.



If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!

If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!



I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.



If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.

If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.





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