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General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.
Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
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.
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
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.
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
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.
I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.
The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.
I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more. But there are no fifteen thousand men i the world that can go across that ground.
General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!
If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.
That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.
