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Reader Phillips is correct-but only up to a point. The coinage was Grant's. The general first used the line in a wartime letter written from Spottsylvania on May 11, 1864: "I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer...
...same Father Corby. He resigned from the Notre Dame faculty in 1861 to become chaplain of General Thomas F. Meagher's famed Irish Brigade of New York, served the brigade as it fought heroically at Fair Oaks, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Spottsylvania. The Gettysburg statue is a duplicate of the one at Notre Dame, where he returned after the war and served two terms (1866-72 and 1877-81) as president...
...thirty-ninth reunion. They were a lean, wiry lot, with 84-year-old drummer boys as youngsters of the gathering. The U. S. Marine Band played "Dixie." So great was the excitement that two oldsters were hospitalized. One died. Old codgers sat about swapping stories of Fair Oaks, Chickamauga, Spottsylvania Court House. Time, for a few days, was turned back for these lingering old men to a better, brighter land...
...Spottsylvania Court House where trees were felled by steady musket-fire; at North Anna where Lee entrenched before Grant could arrive; at Cold Harbor where steady artillery hammering failed utterly against tall breastworks, Lee baited Grant, taunted him, hurt him. Petersburg saw Lee defending the Danville railway, source of Confederate supplies, and losing men. Grant lost more, but had more to lose. The pressure was beginning to tell on Lee. In the spring of 1865, a gallant remnant of Lee's army, to whose "tattered standards the fortunes of the Confederacy had been nailed," laid down its arms...
...Passed a bill directing that an inspection be made of the battlefields of Fredericksburg and Spottsylvania, with a view to preserving and marking historical sites...