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Charles Ferguson Smith
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“Battle is the ultimate to which the whole life's labor of an officer should be directed. He may live to the age of retirement without seeing a battle; still he must always be getting ready for it exactly as if he knew the hour of the day it is to break upon him. And then, whether it come late or early, he must be willing to fight — he must fight.”
Charles Ferguson Smith (1807–1862) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conversation with Lew Wallace in Paducah, KY (September, 1861); reported in Lew Wallace: An Autobiography (New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1906), ch. 40, p. 344