"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."

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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."

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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

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"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."

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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

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"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."

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"Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie."

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"Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this."

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"That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work."

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"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them."

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"Man is remembered by his deeds."

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"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."

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"But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here."

Government

"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."

Health

"I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth."

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