My brave fellows, you have done all I asked you to do, and more than can be reasonably expected; but your country is at stake, your wives, your houses and all that you hold dear. You have worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships, but we know not how to spare you. If you will consent to stay one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty, and to your country, which you probably can never do under any other circumstances.

We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed... we must bear the present evils and fortitude.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

It is for us the living ... to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon.

I still recalled the excitement and patriotic fervour in the town when Tiger Hill was won.