It is all over now. Many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.
Who Said It
Maj. Gen. George Pickett, to his Fiancée
Source
Library of Congress
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