"Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!"
— Winfield Scott

January 1, 1970

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Address to US forces after the of Battle of Chapultepec in the Mexican-American War (September 1847) as quoted in The Life and Military and Civic Services of Lieut-Gen. Winfield Scott (1861) by Orville James Victor, p. 106.