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No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on.
One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go any where, or to do anything, not to turn back, or stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be 'a field of battle' were anything but agreeable.