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May we meet again in happier times.
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And if not in this troubled world
may we meet in...
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In heaven.
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- Parade, rest!
- We're ready.
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Men of the valley.
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Citizen soldiers.
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I am here at the order of General Robert
E. Lee, commanding all Virginia forces.
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On April 15 of this year
of our Lord, 1861...
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...Simon Cameron, the secretary of war
of the United States...
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...sent a telegram to our governor to
raise three regiments of infantry...
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...to be sent to assist in suppressing
the Southern Confederacy.
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Governor Letcher's answer is well
known to you, but perhaps not his words.
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His wire to Washington stated:
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"You have chosen to inaugurate civil war.
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Having done so, we will meet you
in a spirit as determined...
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...as the Lincoln administration
has exhibited toward the South."
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Two days later the Virginia legislature
were voting for secession.
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Just as we would not send any of our
soldiers to march in other states...
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...and tyrannize other people...
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...so will we never allow the armies
of others to march into our states...
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...and tyrannize our people.
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Like many of you, indeed most of you,
I've always been a Union man.