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Sgt. Buster Kilrain: [the 20th Maine is about to attack the stone wall at Fredericksburg]
Sgt. Buster Kilrain: Seems a terrible long distance up that hill.
Sgt. Thomas Chamberlain: It'll be shortened by those in front.
Sgt. Buster Kilrain: Beggin' your pardon, sir; the only thing that will be shortened by those in front is their lives.
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Gen. 'Stonewall' Jackson: [commenting on the elaborate uniform of General Trimble] There goes the best dressed man in this whole army.
John Demers
Extended Reading
