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

For many of us, the road is a difficult one, but the path is always there for us to follow, no matter how many times we may fall.

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.