Category: Americana

“A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.” 

– Robert E. Lee

“I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything? ”

– Abraham Lincoln in response to General McClellan.

“My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.”

– ‘Fighting’ Joe Hooker

“General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys? ”

– John Brown Gordon

“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.”

– William Tecumseh Sherman

“Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.”

– Last words of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”

– Nathan Bedford Forrest

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it.”

– Robert E. Lee

 

Doing something different. In these times, it is politically incorrect to recall a certain class of Veterans, those who served for the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War. This is my small remembrance of these men, who are a part of my heritage, regardless of how the political winds blow.

It’s Memorial Day. Remember all of them. In a lost and wrong-headed cause, they gave their all.