With one goal, seeking information of some movement of the enemy, whether anyone was shifting
Annoyance, Eisenhower knew that the prolonged
We got a duty . . . we all got the same duty, all of us, Major. Armistead
Sorry, ma’am, but we need a big damn army right now, and there’s no better way to make one than to gather up a bunch of boys and tell them how much fun they’re going to have killing their enemy.
No matter how many times you give the orders, you don’t show them that you know damn well what’s going to happen next. Doesn’t matter if these boys are illiterate mudkickers or college boys. They’ll s...
I’m not concerned about General Burnside right now. I’m much more concerned with how far Lee will let us go before he does something.
Go home, Sean. Go plant some flowers and mow your grass. And maybe hatch a couple more kids.You sound like Colleen. That's what she wants.It's what we all want. Some of us just don't know it yet.
Every Marine was trained in handling a rifle, no matter what noncombat job he might assume down the road. Right now, at Hagaru-ri, every Marine was now a rifleman.
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight … touch the mountains and they shall smoke … He had memorized that verse years before, Psalm 144, knew somehow,...
Who blamed Lee. Longstreet knew that somewhere
See the strength of the blue lines in front of them. But it was
He is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers.
Control of Tunisia, and in both Algeria and
Care about right now is how long this is
No cause that was ever worthy was without its turmoil, its trials, its hopelessness. We are not defeated yet.
My job is to … do my job. Lead, for God’s sake. Keep my nose out of places where the machine is working, and stick it in deep where it isn’t.
Lee made small greetings to the others, saw the sour expression of Jubal Early, Ewell’s division commander,
He slapped one hand against the breech of the Thompson, slapped again, pulsing frustration, and said aloud, Dammit!
All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time. —COLONEL LEWIS CHESTY PULLER
Vegetables were almost nonexistent, and what passed for meat was either rancid or pure fat. The men were surviving on crackers and moldy flour. Lee was beginning to understand what this meant to the f...