Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.

My arm is paralyzed my voice that once could be heard all along the line, is gone I can scarcely speak above a whisper my hearing is very much impaired, and sometimes I feel as if I wished the end would come but I have some misrepresentations of my battles that I wish to correct, so as to have my record correct before I die.

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.