- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
- Handled
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- Nov 07, 2020
As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.
- Diversion
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- Nov 07, 2020
A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020