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

Author: James Longstreet - American Soldier
  Like , Places , Fire , Shells


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.

Author: James Longstreet - American Soldier
  Way , Strong , Behind , Battle


Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Author: James Longstreet - American Soldier
  Why , Men , Fight , Born


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

Author: James Longstreet - American Soldier
  Day , Man , War , Fight


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.

Author: James Longstreet - American Soldier
  Being , Back , Say , Strong


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.

Author: James Longstreet - American Soldier
  Help , Me , Responsibility , Blame


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.

Author: James Longstreet - American Soldier
  Best , I Am , Better , Great


Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.

Author: James Longstreet - American Soldier
  Being , Lines , Them , Impact


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.

Author: James Longstreet - American Soldier
  Broken , Road , Battle , Victory


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.

Author: James Longstreet - American Soldier
  Long , Happy , Hope , Die


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