General, Unless He Offers Us Honorable Terms,

I Have Been A Soldier All My Life. I Have Commanded Companies, I Have Commanded Regiments. I Have Commanded Divisions. And I Have Commanded Even More. But There Are No Fifteen Thousand Men I The World That Can Go Across That Ground.

I Hope To Live Long Enough To See My Surviving Comrades March Side By Side With The Union Veterans Along Pennsylvania Avenue, And Then I Will Die Happy.

My Arm Is Paralyzed; My Voice That Once Could Be Heard All Along The Line, Is Gone; I Can Scarcely Speak Above A Whisper; My Hearing Is Very Much Impaired, And Sometimes I Feel As If I Wished The End Would Come; But I Have Some Misrepresentations Of My Battles That I Wish To Correct, So As To Have My Record Correct Before I Die.

Why Do Men Fight Who Were Born To Be Brothers?

If The Entire Union Army Comes Across Here, I Will Kill Them All!