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“**** it, holler them across.”

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Jubal Early was an American lawyer born on November 3, 1816, and died on March 2, 1894. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and was later elected as the governor of Virginia. more

“I have broken all ties that bind me to the (U.S.) Army, not suddenly, impulsively, but conscientiously and after due deliberation. I sacrifice more to my principles than any other officer in the Army can do. I would rather carry a musket in the cause of the South than be commander-in-chief under Mr. Lincoln.”

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Author:Edmund Kirby Smith

“We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.”

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Author:J. E. B. Stuart

“Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.”

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Author:Jefferson Davis

“General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.”

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Author:Robert E. Lee

“Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.”

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Author:Robert E. Lee

“Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy?”

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Author:Richard S. Ewell

“We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.”

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Author:Horace Greeley

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