"Soldiers! I have heard that there was danger here. I have come to place myself at your head and to share it with you. I fear now but one thing- that you will not find foemen worthy of your steel. I know that I can rely upon you."

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Excerpt from a proclamation to U.S. Army soldiers in late June 1861, early in his campaigning in what became West Virginia. As quoted by Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury (1961), p. 407