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"There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended."
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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."
"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."
"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
"They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat."
"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."
"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."
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