“Go back! Go back! Do your duty as I’ve done mine. I’d rather die than be whipped!”

J.E.B. Stuart
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“Go back! Go back! Do your duty as I’ve done mine. I’d rather die than be whipped!”

J.E.B. Stuart
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“Don’t flinch boys! They’re shooting at me, not at you!”

Philip Kearny
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“In glades they meet skull after skull
Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun,
Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat
And cuddled up skeleton;
And scores of such. Some start as in dreams,
And comrades lost bemoan;
By the edge of those wilds Stonewall had charged-
But the year and the Man were gone.”
~Herman Melville (The Armies of the Wilderness)

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“Better a generation should die on the battlefield, that their children may grow up in liberty and justice.” ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“I never see one of Jackson’s couriers approach without expecting an order to assault the North Pole.” Confederate General Richard Ewell

Confederate General Richard Ewell
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