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Johnny Reb vs. Billy Yank
“Get your guns!” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“Good heavens, Billy” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“I caught sight of that half-shaved” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“All right, Bob” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“He began to call Hunter” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“Why, Bob” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“To be one day without” McCarthy,
Detailed Minutiae
.
“The beef is so poor” Wiley,
Johnny Reb.
“Very few of us knew” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray
.
“I found what I supposed”
Voices: Soldier Life.
“Once I took some corn” Wiley,
Johnny Reb
.
“We had fifteen different ways”
Voices: Soldier Life.
“It was no uncommon occurrence” Billings,
Hardtack and Coffee.
“No-siree-bob!” Kane, Spies.
“Johnny Reb! I say, Johnny Reb” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“Gents, U.S. Army” Wiley,
Billy Yank.
“What luck some people have” Catton,
Never Call Retreat.
“If I fall, never mind me” Goolrick,
Rebels Resurgent.
“My mouth was full of blood” Goolrick,
Rebels Resurgent.
“At this time there was no one” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“It is well that war is so terrible” Ketchum,
Picture History.
“Oh, those men! Those men” Ketchum,
Picture History
.
“There was a hospital within thirty” Wiley,
Billy Yank.
“We operated in old blood-stained” Wiley,
Billy Yank.
“On rolling up my bed” Wiley,
Johnny Reb.
“smells so offensively that the men” Wiley,
Johnny Reb
.
“There are two brothers who are”
Voices: Soldier Life.
“I am without drawers” Wiley,
Johnny Reb
.
“at least once a week”
Voices: Soldier Life
.
“We are now on the brink of destruction” McPherson,
Ordeal by Fire.
“My plans are perfect” Wheeler,
Voices
.
“That is the most depressing thing” Goolrick,
Rebels Resurgent.
“It must be victory or death”
Voices
:
Chancellorsville
.
“Press on, press forward!” Goolrick, Rebels Resurgent.
“Well to tell the truth, I just lost” Wheeler,
Voices,
“The woods around the house were” Voices:
Chancellorsville.
“At Chancellorsville we gained another” Goolrick, Rebels Resurgent.
“He has lost his left arm” McPherson, Ordeal by Fire.
“His fearful wounds, his mutilated arm”
Voices: Chancellorsville.
“Doctor, Anna informs me that”
Voices: Chancellorsville.
“Order A. P. Hill to prepare” Wheeler, Voices.
“Never, as long as I knew him” Lincoln, Lincoln Reader.
“My God! My God! What will the country” Lincoln, Lincoln Reader.
“Well, then, will you lend me five dollars?” Sandburg,
Abraham Lincoln.
“What do you want me to do?” Sandburg,
Abraham Lincoln.
“General, I'm afraid I've come” Foote,
Civil War, vol
. 2.
“We crossed the line” Commanger, Blue and the Gray.
The Second-Biggest Fourth of July
“Yes, we'll rally round the flag” Wheeler,
Voices.
“Many strong men wept” Wheeler,
Voices
.
“General Lee said that he really had none”
Voices: Gettysburg
.
“Hello, my little Yank” Wheeler,
Voices.
“held the South's two halves” Foote,
Civil War
,
vol. 2.
“I think Grant has hardly a friend” McPherson,
Ordeal by Fire.
“I was now in the enemy's country” McPherson,
Ordeal by Fire
.
“a very determined little fellow.” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“Mississippians don't know, and refuse” McPherson,
Battle Cry.
“If the world doubts our fighting” Trudeau,
Men of War
.
“I will bring back these colors” Ochs,
Black Patriot.
“They charged and re-charged” Trudeau,
Men of War
.
“They fought splendidly.” Trudeau,
Men of War.
“Rats, of which there were plenty” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“They flop up and down” Wiley,
Johnny Reb.
“If there is no objection, I will take” Foote,
Civil War, vol. 2.
“Children, run home” Alleman,
At Gettysburg
.
“Some of the girls did not reach” Alleman,
At Gettysburg.
“Tell Lee to hold on just a little” Trudeau,
Gettysburg
.
“I thought some of the boys” Wheeler,
Voices
.
“I can get my hands in here” Wheeler,
Voices
.
“The fate of the nation” Trudeau,
Gettysburg
.
“I think this is the strongest position” Foote,
Civil War, vol. 2
.
“No, the enemy is there” Foote,
Civil War, vol. 2.
“I am glad to hear you say so” Foote,
Civil War, vol. 2.
“This is the turning point” Young,
What a Boy Saw
.
“This is the left of the Union line” Pullen,
Twentieth Maine.
“Boys, I don't like this” Pullen,
Twentieth Maine.
“Some of my men fainted” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“How can I describe” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“At times I saw around” Pullen,
Twentieth Maine.
“My dead and wounded” Wheeler,
Voices
.
“As a last, desperate resort” Chamberlain,
Blood and Fire.
“We struck them with” Pullen,
Twentieth Maine
.
“There never were harder fighters” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“The first wounded soldier whom” Alleman,
At Gettysburg.
“I never could bear the sight” Myers,
Gettysburg Schoolteacher.
“There were never such men” Sandburg,
Abraham Lincoln.
“We are utterly cut off” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“Cave-digging has become” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“We were almost eaten up” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“Terror stricken, we remained” Loughborough,
Cave Life.
“We expected every moment” Loughborough,
Cave Life.
“The cheeks became thin” Hoehling,
Vicksburg
.
“Mother would not eat mule” Hoehling,
Vicksburg
.
“If you can't feed us” McPherson,
Battle Cry.
“I have been a soldier” Longstreet,
“Lee's Right Wing.”
“The enemy is there” Longstreet,
“Lee's Right Wing.
”
“the hottest day I think I ever saw.”
Voices: Gettysburg.
“Up, men, and to your posts!” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
“No man who looked on” Young,
What a Boy Saw.
“Hold your position, don't fire”
Voices: Gettysburg.
“Come on, Johnny!” Foote,
Civil War, vol. 2.
“Arms, heads, blankets, guns”
Clark, Gettysburg
.
“At every step some poor fellow”
Voices: Gettysburg
.
“It's all my fault.” Foote,
Civil War, vol. 2.
“Some cried, others shook hands”
Voices: Gettysburg.
“We are now in the darkest hour”
Foote, Civil War, vol. 2.
“I cannot, in words” Sandburg,
Abraham Lincoln.
“Peace does not appear so” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray.
Can Anyone Win This War?
“A Confederate soldier captured eight” Wiley, Johnny Reb.
“We had them in our grasp” McPherson,
Ordeal
by Fire.
“I'm a tired man” Sandburg, Abraham
Lincoln.
“For ninety-six hours” Catton, Never Call Retreat.
“The whole of the army” Commanger, Blue
and
the Gray.
“Will no one have mercy” Wiley, Johnny Reb.
“Stop! Oh! For God's sake” Wiley, Johnny Reb.
“I sensibly feel the growing” Lee, Wartime Papers.
“Our country could not bear” Commanger, Blue
and
the Gray.
“My God! How can I pay” McPherson,
Ordeal by Fire.
“Some had hatchets” Channing,
Confederate Ordeal.
“We are starving” McPherson,
Battle Cry.
“Here is all I have” Channing,
Confederate Ordeal
.
“My friends, you have one” McPherson,
Battle Cry.
“I heard loud and continued cheers” Perry,
Letters from a Surgeon.
“A rich man's war” McPherson,
Ordeal by Fire.
“Colonel Montgomery and his gallant” Clinton,
Harriet Tubman.
“Women would come with twins” Clinton,
Harriet Tubman.
“I made up my mind then” Larson,
Bound for the Promised Land
.
“Every black man and woman” Trudeau,
Men of War.
“Men fell all around me” Trudeau,
Men of War.
“In this position I remained” Trudeau,
Men of War.
“And the officer in charge said” Trudeau,
Men of War.
“This year has brought” McPherson,
Ordeal by Fire
.
“Fourscore and seven years” Lincoln,
Speeches and Writings.
“Lamon, that speech” Sandburg,
Abraham Lincoln.
“They have fought their last man” Korn,
Fight for Chattanooga
.
“He was an expert drummer” Korn,
Fight for Chattanooga.
“I did not like to stand” Wiley,
Billy Yank.
“Surrender, you little Yankee!” Wiley,
Billy Yank.
“This announcement has lifted” Jones,
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary
.
“confused and stunned” Sandburg,
Abraham Lincoln.
“Thomas, who ordered” McPherson,
Ordeal by Fire.
“Bragg's disaster so shocked” Jones,
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary.
“My heart aches.” McPherson,
Ordeal by Fire.
“Nothing can be worse” Ransom,
Andersonville Diary
.
“Could die in two hours” Ransom,
Andersonville Diary.
“When ready to change” Commanger,
Blue and the Gray
.
“We thought we could dig” Horigan,
Elmira
.
“Half past three o'clock” Horigan,
Elmira.
“I have the honor to inform you” Perret,
Ulysses S. Grant.
“It is General Grant” Simpson,
Ulysses S. Grant.
“Stand up so we can all” Perret,
Ulysses S. Grant
.
“Really, Mr. Lincoln” Foote,
Civil War, vol. 3.
“I must have this day” Foote,
Civil War, vol. 3.
“We have got to whip” Foote,
Civil War, vol. 3.
“That man will fight us” Foote,
Civil War, vol. 3.

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