Joshua Chamberlain

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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