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"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."
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"That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other."

"New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker."

"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."

"I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland."

"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs."
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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."

"Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again."

"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."

"This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal."

"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."

"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."

"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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