Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.