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  • MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

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    Feb 23, 2018 3 minutes

    Yesterday God crowned our arms with success. The enemy is retreating.

    Confederate major general Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson to his wife on June 9, 1862, after his Army of the Valley repulsed attacks by Union major general John C. Frémont and Union brigadier general James Shields in the Battle of Port Republic

    Hold on with a bull-dog grip, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

    President Abraham Lincoln to Union lieutenant general Ulysses S. Grant on August 17, 1864, after being informed that

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