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I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket upon my shoulders and entered the rank, or if I could have justified the measure to posterity, and my own conscience, had retired to the back country, and lived in a wigwam.
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Letter to Joseph Reed, during the siege of Boston

📅 1776

📂 Wisdom & Counsel