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Regarding Hill's sarcasm within official correspondence and reports. In Four Years Under Marse Robert, Stiles recollected:
And here's an example I ran across reprinted in the newspaper but directly from the OR:
Daily Press., (Newport News,VA), June 11, 1905, page 9.
Occasionally, in his official reports, he gave the tartest and most amusing expressions to his strenuous views and standards of soldierly courage and devotion. I recall one in which, in commenting upon the flight of a body of cavalry before overwhelming numbers, he remarks incidentally, that it takes a good man to stand and fight against heavy odds, when he has only two legs under him; but that, if you put six legs under him to run away with, it requires the best kind of a man to stand and fight.
In another report, in describing a stampede and the crush and jam of fugitives in the highway, he says, "Not a dog; no, not even a sneaking exempt, could have made his way through." [Four Years Under Marse Robert, Robert Stiles, New York, Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1904, pp.66-67.]
And here's an example I ran across reprinted in the newspaper but directly from the OR:
Daily Press., (Newport News,VA), June 11, 1905, page 9.