Quotes from the ACW

[Chris G.]

"No damn man kills me and lives" (Forrest after being shot by a subordinate officer...Forrest was as good as his word, he shot and killed his attacker)

[Hancock the Superb]

"They're picking us off. We should be attacking." - Isreal B. Richardson - moments before he died during the ATTACK of the sunken road.

[Joshua l.Chamberlain]

"It seems the fortunes of war have left me in your hands."-General Prince
reply
"Damn the fortunes of war get to the rear!"-Gneral A.P. Hill
Hill's remark to General Prince's at the battle of Cedar Mountain.
From the book "Southern Warier-Gneral A.P. Hill"

[Joshua l.Chamberlain]

"Look there stands Jackson like a stonewall! Let us be determined to die here an we will conquer!"-General Bernard Bee
Battle of First Manassas

[Chamberlain]

John F. Reynolds: “What goes, John?”

John Buford (pointing at the long lines of advancing Confederate infantry): “The devil’s to pay!”



Chamberlain

[Chris G.]

"The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy."

--- General Jubal Early, CSA



"Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision."

--- General Pat Cleburne, CSA

[Joshua l.Chamberlain]

"General sir the day is going against us."-Private from the 33rd Virginia
reply
"If you think so sir then you had better not say anything about it."-General Thomas Jackson

[Hancock the Superb]

General, where would you like us, sir?
"Anywhere that you feel best!" - Jackson at Port Republic

"We must cut our way through!" - Banks at Strasburg when learning of Ewell's flanking march.

[Phantom Captain]

Oh there are so many but I'll add a few of my favorites...



"I can not spare this man. He fights." President A. Lincoln on accusations of General U.S. Grant being a butcher.


"Well Govan, if we are to die let us die like men." General Patrick Cleburne, November 30, 1864. Franklin, TN.


"For two years the U.S. Regulars taught us how to be soldiers; in the Wheatfield at Gettysburg they taught us how to die like soldiers." An admiring volunteer watching the Regulars sacrifice themselves allowing other Federal troops to escape, July 2, 1863.

[Joshua l.Chamberlain]

General Beaureguard's reply to one of his commanders asking where to go.
"Take them all to the front go where the fire is the hottest."-General P.G.T. Beaureguard
General Jackson to his men.
"Hold your fire until they are on you. Then fire and give them the bayonet. And when you charge, yell like furies!"-General Thomas Jackson
The battle of First Manassas