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• But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
• The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which…
• The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
• Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
• Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to…
• He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton,…
• I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.
• We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
• The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of…
• I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.
• My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without…
• We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be,…

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