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Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
James Longstreet / Military Commander
War
Born
Brother
Fighting
Why
Brothers
Fight
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If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Men
War
Enough
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This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
War
Dies
Fighting
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Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Impact
Lines
Heaviest
Nearer
Pickett
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If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Army
Military
Unions
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Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
War
Errors
Truth Is
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That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
War
War Man Fight
Fight
Every Day
Hour
Till
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General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!
James Longstreet / Military Commander
War
Fighting
Honorable
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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Army
Short Time
Virginia
Northern
Potomac
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The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Caught
Hail
Shells
Shot
Burst
Crashed
Solid
Rained
Several
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General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Battle
Broken
Troops
Finding
Pickett
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Campaigns
Consideration
Fancy
Good Ideas
Ideas
Time Good Will
Campaign
Lee
Mentioned
Receive
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I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
War
Succeed
Want
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Happy
Veterans Day
Civil War
Enough
Long
March
Our Veterans
Pennsylvania
Surviving
Die
Avenue
Side
Comrades
Union
Veterans
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There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Blow
Broken
Effort
Files
Indication
Panic
Steady
Blows
Failed
Nobly
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
War
Soldier
Unions
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Great Results
Helping
Results
Thinking
Views
Accept
Best Great I Am
Condition
Best Great Better
Inclined
Present
Obtained
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Battle
Heavy
Lines
Stronger
Thick
Advance
Brigade
Followed
Handled
Ordered
Supporting
Wood
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Batteries
Diversion
Fire
Noon
Streets
Troops
Seen
Open
Favor
Jackson
Orders
Sent
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Battle
Fixed
Avoid
Campaign
Defensive
Draw
Grant
Lee
Occupied
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Army
Confederate
Demand
Excitement
Surrender
Troops
Great City People
Near
Reached
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Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Accidents
Battle
Mistake
Officers
Troops
Wilderness
Shot
Worse
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Driven
Armies
Federal
Hazardous
Ours
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Blame
Desire
Responsibility
Cause
Help
Remain
Shall
Shifted
Taking
Therefore
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Battle
Broken
Changed
Defeat
Hours
Panic
Rallying
Retreat
Ten
Corps
Divisions
Plank
Rear
Third
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Men
War
Soldier
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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.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Passion
Sleep
Struggle
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My arm is paralyzed; my voice that once could be heard all along the line, is gone; I can scarcely speak above a whisper; my hearing is very much impaired, and sometimes I feel as if I wished the end would come; but I have some misrepresentations of my battles that I wish to correct, so as to have my record correct before I die.
James Longstreet / Military Commander
Battle
Voice
Wish
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The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his hand in mine was, Pete, let us have another game of brag, to recall the days that were so pleasant. Great God! I thought to myself, how my heart swells out to such magnanimous touch of humanity. Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
James Longstreet / Military Commander
War
Brother
Heart
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