From actual personal observation where we had driven the enemy from the field, and from what my surgeons, left with our wounded, learned in relation to the loss of the enemy, I am convinced that we killed more of his men than we lost in both killed and wounded.
Dodge expresses his belief that his forces inflicted more casualties on the enemy than they suffered themselves during a battle.
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There is an element in this country that already has no use for the soldier of the Civil War.
The right side is beginning to get a hearing, and when the facts and causes for the action of the Army are generally known, it will be found that our Army is as humane and well-behaved a body of troops as ever went into a foreign country…
Have you, or any one else, ever heard a single word of protest from these people or any one connected with them against the revolting cruelties of the enemy in the Philippines?
There is no officer listening to me who did not see cruelties in the Civil War.
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