Were I to try it, I would feel like a cat in a strange garret.

Captain, I think my place is where I am most needed.

You do not need me in your ranks, and my company does.
They are excellent fighters, but they need a leader.

To silence a battery, to capture a flag, to take a fortification, they will rush into the jaws of death." "Yes, I have often wondered at their bravery." "Captain, these battles put them on their mettle.

They have been so long taught that they are nothing and nobody, that they seem glad to prove they are something and somebody." "But, Johnson, you do not look like them, you do not talk like them.