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"Please, who won the battle here?"
..."I'd say the cussed bluebellies did, even if they withdrew over the other side of the breastworks. South of here is all Confederate-held now. Our old Gen'ral Hood'll attack 'em in Nashville later on. He'll track 'em there and whip 'em. He's goin' to make 'em bawl for what they done to us at Franklin on the last day of November, 1864."
-Patricia Beatty, Turn Homeward, Hannalee
Posted by Lydia GT
Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force:
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country, but he who stands it now deserves the love and thanks of men and women. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered...
Men cry, peace, peace! But there is no peace.
War is inevitable, and let it come!
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others will take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure...
This Would Be No Ordinary War, My Friends...You cannot make peace with the devil...
Do you want to lie here and get killed or get up and do something about it?
If I should die, think only this of me, that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England...
There'll always be an England And England shall be free, If England means as much to you As England means to me...
Take up our quarrel with the foe, To you from failing hands we throw The torch. Be yours to hold it high...
The Banners of the King go forth!
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
compiled and edited by MRE
It was meant to be inspiring for people who write novels in November.
(General D. Eisenhower, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, the War of the Vendee, officer on D-Day, Rupert Brooke, Hugh Charles, John McCrae)