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wzh55 -> RE: Famous quotes from American Civil War (7/27/2007 11:43:37 AM)
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Here are some ACW QUOTES I found while doing some research for a project.....
"We'll fight them, sir, 'til hell freezes over, and then, sir, we will fight them on the ice."
A Confederate soldier at Gettysburg.
"General, did you ever hear of Mosby?"
"Yes, have you caught him?"
"He has caught you."
Captain John S. Mosby capturing General E.H. Stoughton, March, 1863
"At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted."
Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, 1863
"Boys, here is a paper with which if I cannot whip Bobby Lee, I will be willing to go home".
George B McClellan before the battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg, when a captured copy of Lee’s
battle orders were brought to McClellan
At the Battle of Shiloh
With no place else to go, Grant sat under a tree in the rain, puffing stoically at his pipe. There
Sherman found him. "Well, Grant," said Sherman as he approached the commanding general
sitting under a tree in a cold rain, placidly puffing a cigar, "We've had the devil's own day, haven't we?"
"Yes," Grant replied between puffs. "Lick 'em tomorrow, though."
And he did.
"I never see one of Jackson's couriers approach without expecting an order to assault the North Pole."
-Maj. Gen. Richard Ewell
Ulysses S. Grant on the evening of the first day of the battle of the Wilderness, when told that Lee
would surely deliver a devastating counterattack: “Oh, I am heartily sick of hearing what Lee is
going to do. Some of you always seem to think that he is 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 we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.”
During the retreat from Gettysburg, in the streets of Funkstown, Maj. H. D. McDaniel of the
11th GA lay with what had been pronounced a mortal stomach wound. Those tending to him,
including two cousins, thinking he had finally expired, prepared to draw his blanket over his
face. As they did so, McDaniel opened his eyes, turned his head and said:
“Look at the size of the ankles on that Dutch woman over there on the porch!”
Though left in the hands of the enemy, McDaniel recovered to serve as Georgia’s governor.
“Too late, sir, the battle is won.”
Richard Taylor after the Battle of Mansfield to a messenger from Kirby Smith ordering him to retreat.
At Champion Hill, when Gen. John A. Logan heard a man protest: “General, the rebels are awful thick up there”, Logan yelled back: “Damn it, that’s the place to kill them - where they are thick”.
Responding to a report from a private that the federals had been routed at the Battle of Chickamaugua, General Braxton Bragg, unable to believe the news, asked the private: “Private, do you know what a retreat looks like?” The private reportedly responded: “I reckon so, General, I’ve been with you this whole campaign.”
At four o’clock in the morning we began the march on the enemy. Each man had forty cartridges, all moving accouterments and three days’ rations. General Johnston was cheered as he rode by our command and I remember his words as well as if they had been today, Shoot low, boys; it takes two to carry one off the field.”
–Pvt. William E. Bevens, 1st Arkansas
The first thing in the morning is drill, then drill, then drill again. Then drill, drill, a little more drill. Then drill, and lastly drill. Between drills, we drill and sometimes stop to eat a little and have roll call.” - A Northern soldier.
"I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name
misspelled in the newspapers."
"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
"I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it"
Attributed to George Pickett when asked why the Confederates were defeated at Gettysburg.
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