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That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.

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I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

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Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

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If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.

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Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender.

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A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.

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The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

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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.

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In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

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I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: January 8th, 1821

Died: January 2nd, 1904

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