Source: The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865
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Civil War Quotes
Source: General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous
“I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!”
“You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom
“My God! My God! What will the country say?”
Source: Conversations With Lincoln
“The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.”
“Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.”
“confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.”
“By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.”
Source: McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union
“That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!”
Source: Faithfully and forever your soldier
“I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.”
Source: The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.”
“Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.”
“The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“In the name of God and humanity I protest!”
Source: Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies
“Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.”
Source: Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50
Source: General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous
“Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.”
“General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!”
“Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well.”
“I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.”
Source: Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
Source: Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom