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dh76513 -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (9/25/2006 7:12:27 PM)

"War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over. "

- William Tecumseh Sherman



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dh76513 -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (9/25/2006 7:18:06 PM)

"If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. "

- Jefferson Davis



dh76513 -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (9/25/2006 7:22:23 PM)

“No damn man kills me and lives.”

- Nathan Bedford Forrest

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dh76513 -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (9/26/2006 7:21:03 PM)

“Too often we fail to see the Forrest for the Lees.”

– Emory M. Thomas (Forward to "A Battle from the Start" by Brain Steel Wills)



Richrd -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (9/26/2006 7:50:54 PM)

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too big for a lunatic asylum.
I forget who, some S.C. politician.



Gil R. -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (9/26/2006 7:52:15 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Richrd

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too big for a lunatic asylum.
I forget who, some S.C. politician.


I like that one, but I don't want to alienate all of the potential customers in S.C.



dh76513 -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (9/26/2006 8:36:27 PM)

"I see from the number of physicians that you think my condition dangerous, but I thank God, if it is His will, that I am ready to go."
– General “Stonewall” Jackson on his deathbed at Guinea Station.

"I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy."
– General James Longstreet at a Memorial Day Parade in 1902

"I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers."
– General William Tecumseh Sherman

"I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it"
– General George Pickett when asked why the Confederates were defeated at Gettysburg



Oldguard -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/1/2006 7:37:10 PM)

"Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. And when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic stricken and can then be destroyed by half their number." - Gen. T. Jackson



raven1 -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/7/2006 10:32:11 PM)

"Gentlemen, we had the honor of being captured by Stonewall Jackson himself"

- A union soldier at the head of a squad of 15 to 20 union pow's passing thorough confederate lines to the rear.

Famous? no. But i like it.[;)]



Jonathan Palfrey -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/12/2006 10:19:17 AM)

"My dear McClellan, If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully, A. Lincoln." (Found in "The Complete Acid Drops")

"In winter, the overcoat-bearing Federal was esteemed especially for his pelt." (A Confederate soldier, January 1963; found on the Web)

"June 3. Cold Harbor. I am killed." (Final entry in the bloodstained notebook of a Union soldier, 1864; found on the Web)



dh76513 -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/12/2006 3:12:44 PM)

"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

~Abraham Lincoln



dh76513 -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/12/2006 3:14:07 PM)

“All we ask is to be let alone.”

~Jefferson Davis



Dog robber -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/13/2006 4:13:24 AM)

"My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

"What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I believe doing more will help the cause."
Lincoln to Horace Greeley
 

"I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the Government needed a dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can be dictators.
 
"What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship."
Lincoln to Hooker
 
"I don't care for John Pope one pinch of owl dung!"
 
                                                                             Gen Samuel Sturgis



ezzler -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/13/2006 1:30:12 PM)

"No pack of whining, snarling, ill-fed, vagabond street dogs ... ever more strongly produced the impression of forlorn, outcast, helpless, hopeless misery."

This quote by Frederick Law Olmsted describes the retreating Union Army after the First Battle of Bull Run.



raven1 -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/14/2006 8:52:05 AM)

I fights mit Sigel.
- A german immigrant in Sigel's division.

I runs with McDowell.
- In response, a soldier in McDowell's division.



RERomine -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/14/2006 6:39:43 PM)

"Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do." - Ulysses S. Grant

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I'm not sure if this is an actual quote or not, but I've read and heard it before. Unfortunately, none of the sources where it is listed would I classify as "authoritative". It's listed in numerous web sites and I think it made it book two of the "North and South" miniseries, "Love and War". This may just be a case where historical fiction morphs into historical fact over time.



Oldguard -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/25/2006 6:01:31 PM)

"Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me." He added, after a pause, looking me full in the face: "That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave" - Gen. T. Jackson




Twotribes -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/25/2006 9:10:09 PM)

And if the hot heads in South Carolina had not fired on Sumnter we have no way of knowing if Lincoln could have mustered the will of the North to war.



Jonathan Palfrey -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (10/25/2006 10:04:18 PM)

Yes, I've sometimes wondered about that myself. Firing the first shots was unnecessary and (with the benefit of hindsight) most unwise.



AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/3/2006 8:05:18 AM)

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

Last words of Tho. "Stonewall" Jackson

Well documented as I recall. Many were attending him at his death.



Jonathan Palfrey -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/3/2006 8:34:09 AM)

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ORIGINAL: AU Tiger
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this ra..."

I believe the correct quote is "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." He was shot soon after uttering the sentence, but not while he was uttering it.



AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/3/2006 8:45:00 AM)

True. I had it correctly on the tag, but got tired of hearing that I should change it for impact, so I finally did. If I were to switch from the WWII forums to here, I will most assuredly change it back, if practicable.



Mike Scholl -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/13/2006 7:20:00 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Gil R.
Guilty. And a Yankees fan, to boot!



You could be forgiven for being a Yankee..., many fine folk are. But a "Yankees Fan" puts you beyond the pale.



Gil R. -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/14/2006 12:40:00 AM)

Amazing that I was able to get away with that comment for so long...



Mike Scholl -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/14/2006 1:30:36 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Amazing that I was able to get away with that comment for so long...



Well, as a Cardinals fan who just finally recieved "payback" for the 1985 umpire robbery fiasco, I had to say something when you admitted such a sick and twisted personal flaw in your otherwise admirable character.



Gil R. -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/14/2006 1:45:37 AM)

It wasn't all the umps' fault. I seem to remember "One Tough Dominican" having a meltdown...



ColinWright -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/14/2006 6:15:19 AM)

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ORIGINAL: sven6345789

How about a Joke (it is historical)

So Stonewall Jackson died and God send down his Angels to pick him up from the Grave and lift him up to heaven. The Angels came down and found his Grave. But Stonewall wasn't there. So they looked everywhere to find his Spirit but couldn't. Embarrassed, they returned to god to tell him about it, and when they reached Heaven, they found out that Gen. Jackson was already there. He had bypassed the Angels with a rapid flanking maneuver.


On that note, there's the one about Sheridan. He once commented that if he had a choice between hell and Texas, he would rent out Texas and live in hell.

Some historian then added that if only Sheridan's body could be disinterred and reburied in Texas, he could have both.



ColinWright -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/14/2006 6:23:18 AM)

One of my favorites. A Confederate straggler, in about the same condition as the rest of Lee's army by that point, was cornered by some Union troops on the retreat that ended at Appomattox.

'Hands up, Reb: we got you.'

Raising his hands, the Confederate glances over himself. 'Yep -- and a hell of a git you got.'



Mike Scholl -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/14/2006 7:23:32 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

It wasn't all the umps' fault. I seem to remember "One Tough Dominican" having a meltdown...



It was a meltdown all around. That was the same series which featured the fastest man in Baseball being run down by a 2 mph tarp roller. Couldn't buy a "break" in '85. Which is why I think of '06 (with every break falling our way) as a "deserved" payback. Tough Luck for the Detroit Fans though..., I can sympathize with them.



Conhugeco -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (11/14/2006 6:58:13 PM)

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ORIGINAL: raven1

I fights mit Sigel.
- A german immigrant in Sigel's division.

I runs with McDowell.
- In response, a soldier in McDowell's division.


I have always heard this one as: "I runs mit Howard."

I also like the quote by Grant in my signature. Edit: Oops, where's my signature?

DickH



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