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1. "You are green, it is true, but they are green also; you are all green alike."
2. "My husband has wept bitter tears of blood over this terrible war, but as a man of honor and a Virginian, he must follow the destiny of his state."
3. "If it must be, let it come, and when there is no longer a soldier's arm to raise the Stars and Stripes above our Capitol, may God give me strength to mine."
4. Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. Famous last words were either "Forward! For God's sake, forward!" or "Forward men forward for God's sake and drive those fellows out of those woods."
5. Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 9, 1864. Famous last words may have been, "Why, my man, I am ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
6. "Shame, disgrace, beggary, all have come at once, and are hard to bear--the grand smash!"
7. July 3, 1863. "There is the enemy, and there I mean to attack him."
8. "I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle."
9. "I saw two hundred wagons crowded with wounded men. The dark spot in the mud told all too plainly where some poor fellow's life had dripped out in those dreadful hours. While our soldiers fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. My place is anywhere between the bullet and the battlefield."
10. "I beg to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah."
11. "An officer fired his pistol at my head with one hand while he handed me his sword with the other."
12. "We haven't taken Washington, but we've scared Abe Lincoln like hell!"
13. "Now, by God, I'll put him through. That's the last speech he will ever make."
14. "There are times when a corps commander's life does not count."
15. "That night a number of stray _____ came to where I lay and commenced rooting and tearing at the dead men around me." What belongs in the blank?
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