"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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"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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"But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power."

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"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."

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