December, 1863, near Dalton, Georgia. The Rebels are on top of Rocky Face Ridge, taking fire from cannons below. “Hold on, boys,” says a sharpshooter, “I’ll stop that racket.” His rifle cracks. Sure enough, things get quiet. But not for long. Soon, “the valley below is full of blue coats.” Private Sam Watkins’ Company H
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“Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.” It is one of the most quoted lines ever attached to General Robert E. Lee. It hangs on classroom walls, appears in speeches and books, and every freshman cadet at
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“…the contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.” Jefferson Davis After the War These words are attributed to Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States of America. Davis was a West Point graduate, a hero of the Mexican War, a United
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“All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth.” — General Robert E. Lee Where the Quote Comes From General Lee wrote these words after the war, while he was president
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“Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer,
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“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.” — attributed to President Jefferson Davis What Davis Meant Jefferson Davis believed the principle of self-government would outlive the Confederacy. This quote is widely attributed to Jefferson Davis, though its exact original source
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“Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.” — attributed to General Robert E. Lee
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“Every one should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history, and descend to posterity.” — General Robert E. Lee, letter to General P.G.T. Beauregard, 1865 Where the Quote Comes From General Lee wrote these words in a letter to General
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