" Waiting Both http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/9302, lines 1-5, from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
“Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?”
Said to his men at Shiloh, 1862. As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell.
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