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Winfield Scott Hancock
Reynolds is a Union Major General, known as an immaculate, elegant solider. He is even offered command of the entire Union Army but declines, with the honor passing to Meade instead. When Buford sends him repeated requests for relief, he gallops into Gettysburg with two corps of soldiers, just in time to help Buford maintain the Union’s hold on Cemetery Hill. However, he is wounded in the head and immediately killed while he and Buford are placing troops in the field.
John Reynolds Quotes in The Killer Angels
The The Killer Angels quotes below are all either spoken by John Reynolds or refer to John Reynolds. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Monday, June 29, 1863: Chapter 3
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It wasn’t the dying. He had seen men die all his life, and death was the luck of the chance, the price you eventually paid. What was worse was the stupidity. The appalling sick stupidity that was so bad you thought sometimes you would go suddenly, violently, completely insane just having to watch it. It was a deadly thing to be thinking on. Job to be done here. And all of it turns on faith.
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John Reynolds Quotes in The Killer Angels
The The Killer Angels quotes below are all either spoken by John Reynolds or refer to John Reynolds. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Monday, June 29, 1863: Chapter 3
Quotes
It wasn’t the dying. He had seen men die all his life, and death was the luck of the chance, the price you eventually paid. What was worse was the stupidity. The appalling sick stupidity that was so bad you thought sometimes you would go suddenly, violently, completely insane just having to watch it. It was a deadly thing to be thinking on. Job to be done here. And all of it turns on faith.
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