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"Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed."
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"Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness."
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"We heard the army before we saw it.The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas."
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"We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict."
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"To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over."
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"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
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"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."
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"The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear."
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"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
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"General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off."
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"What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy."
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"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea."
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"Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left."
Body
"Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg."
Man
"My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage."
Man
"Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed."
Battle
"The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future."
Power
"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."
Writing
"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."
Old
"The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away."
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"But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power."
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