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Vote:   | At about mid night I rode softly along examining our pickets, & whenever the horse stumbled - whiz - would come a bullet in the dark. |
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Vote: | But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider. . . That thought was our power. |
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Vote: | But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. |
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Vote: | Don't worry about me & take all the comfort you can. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. |
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Vote: | I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest - so sweetly and so surely. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea. |
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Vote: | I study, I tell you - every military work I can find. And it is no small labor to master the evolutions of Battalion & Brigade. |
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Vote: | I think I did right & whatever comes of it, I have no fears. |
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Vote: | I was ordered to stand in the middle of the river & urge on the men who halted for fear of the fire. The balls splashed all around me during the whole time & just as I reached the shore two struck just over my head in a tree. |
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Vote: | It is character that tells. |
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Vote: | It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of the truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure. . . and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again. |
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Vote: | Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left. |
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Vote: | My darling wife, I am lying mortally wounded the doctors think, but my mind & heart are at peace. |
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Vote: | My horse I keep a little in the rear. I should have been killed if I had ridden him in the crossing of the Potomac. |
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Vote: | My men moved out with a promptitude and spirit extraordinary, the cheers and welcome they received on the road adding to their enthusiasm. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Our loss had been severe. One-half of my left wing had fallen, and a third of my regiment lay just behind us, dead or badly wounded. |
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Vote: | Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. |
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Vote: | Self-seeking marks too many faces, & all the strifes of peaceful times - less noble often than those of war, - are seen here in their little play. |
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Vote: | The banks on both sides were high the rebels were in line of battle to meet us across & 25 or 30 pieces of artillery on our side shelling them over our heads as we forded leg deep. |
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Vote: | The line faced generally toward a more conspicuous eminence southwest of ours, which is known as Sugar Loaf, or Round Top. |
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Vote: | The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. |
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Vote: | The Surveyorship has nothing of this character or history about it. It is essentially an obscure office, tending to keep one out of notice, as well as out of responsibility. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities. |
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Vote: | We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war. |
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Vote: | We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. |
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Vote: | We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven. |
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Vote: | What I mean by character is a firm, seasoned substance of soul. I mean qualities or acquirements as intelligence, thoughtfulness, conscientiousness, rightmindedness, patience, fortitude, long-suffering and unconquerable resolve. |
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Vote: | You gentlemen in Congress and in the offices of the Government, are in your right places: I desire to be in mine. |
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Vote: | You in my soul I see, faithful watcher by my cot-side long days and nights together through the delirium of mortal anquish, -steadfast, calm and sweet as eternal love. |