“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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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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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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I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.
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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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But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
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