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Valor: A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
"Why have you halted? " roared the commander of a division and Chickamauga, who had ordered a charge; "move forward, sir, at once. " / "General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy. "