“Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.”
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Dispatch to General Henry W. Halleck (1 August 1864), from City Point, Virginia.
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“I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.”
To Colonel George M. Jones and the 503rd Regimental Combat Team, who recaptured Corregidor (2 March 1945), as quoted in Bureau of Navigation News Bulletin (1945), p. 40
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