Joshua Chamberlain Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.”

“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.”

“We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.”

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

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

“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.”