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James Longstreet Quotes: 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.


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



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



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





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