Quotes from the ACW

[Hancock the Superb]

And us boys wondered what those fancy generals in their tents eating their good food were sending us into that infernal mess for.

[Chris G.]

Gen. Lee: How many men will you take?

Gen. Jackson: My whole corps.

Gen. Lee: Well, go on.

Last words exchanged between Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Chancellorsville, VA. 1863.

[JC Edwards]

Most of you should remember my favorite:

"Well, I've got to hand it to you George, you certainly have a talent for Trivializing the Momentous and Complicting the Obvious!"

Jim Kemper (Gettysburg:The Movie):cheer:

[Joshua l.Chamberlain]

Troops cursing General Hood after one of his disasterous battles in the west.
"The Federals got his leg I wish they had his whole damned body."

[louie raider]

Confederate after throwing himself on a loaded cannon on Cemetery ridge: "This gun is mine!"

German artilleryman: "Du sollst sie haben!" just before he pulls the lanyard, emptying the canister shot into the rebel....


i like to think my ancestor did that....

[Chamberlain]

"On they come with the old swinging route step and swaying battle flags. Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood. Thin, worn and famished, but erect and with eyes looking level into ours. Waking memories that bound us together as no other bond. Was not such manhood to be welcomed back into the Union so tested and assured. On our part not a sound of trumpet more nor roll of drum, not a cheer, nor word, nor whisper of vain glorying, nor motion of man. But an awed stillness rather and breathholding, as if it were the passing of the dead."

- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, describing the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia

Chamberlain