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Whatever may be the desire of the Government, I will lend all my energies to carry it out and make every officer and man under me do the same.
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Dodge expresses his commitment to fulfilling government directives and ensuring his subordinates do the same.
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They evidently have no desire to learn about these things, but want some excuse for attacking our Army, hoping thereby to bring dishonor upon our country before the world.
There is no officer listening to me who did not see cruelties in the Civil War.
I must say this is the first time I ever heard of national honor being sustained by such methods.
It is the duty of every companion here, as well as of every good citizen, to enter his protest against these unjust attacks.
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