Grenville Dodge: “My flag-bearer, after having been wounded so he could not hold up the colors, would not leave them.”

It is upheld and maintained today, as it always has been, by the patriotism of our people as represented by our Army in the Civil War, in Cuba, the Philippines, and China.

Under the regulations, it is impossible for the Army to defend itself and make answer to these attacks, except through their own officers, and their reports do not reach the public, for the press seems to use only that which reflects upon…

There is an element in this country that already has no use for the soldier of the Civil War.

There is no officer listening to me who did not see cruelties in the Civil War.