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.
From Joshua Chamberlain
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
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.
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.
I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
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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