I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.