In these cases the colonels were constitutional cowards, unfit for any military position; but not so the officers and men led out of danger by them. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
In two cases, as I now remember, colonels led their regiments from the field on first hearing the whistle of the enemy's bullets. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
Two of the colonels also entered the service from other localities. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
They were very thankfully received, and the kindness acknowledged by letters to me from the colonels of both regiments, in the most grateful terms. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.