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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.
I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life.
I look forward to continuing to serve the people of New York and making our state a safer place to live, work and raise families for many years to come.
I hope I die before I get old.
I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.
Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.