"Just after writing those we were called up……" — Joshua Chamberlain
"Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place."
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23 Quotes by Joshua Chamberlain
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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,…
- 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…
- He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He…
- 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…
- 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…
- We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you…
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