William Howard Russell Quotes

• They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.

  William Howard Russell

  Red Lipstick, Steel, Lines

  On the Russians charging the British, in 'The British Expedition to the Crimea' (1877) p. 156. Russell's original dispatch to The Times, 25 October 1854, printed 14 November 1854 read: 'That thin red streak tipped with a line of steel'

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• Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United States. So short-lived has been the American Union, that men who saw it rise may live to see it fall.

  William Howard Russell

  Running, War, Fall

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