-- Soldier's Quotes from the War

[johan_steele]

"The Potomac Army has no doubt had some hard fighting, but it has been on a different scale than ours and most of it was done in the newspapers." Alonzo Brown

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[johan_steele]

"The discipline was better, the marching better... our men larger, tougher and sinewy... then we marched with heads straight to the front... we were there to be seen and not to see." Samuel Mahon remarking on the Grand Review.

[johan_steele]

"You want to know what it was like to be a soldier? Boredom, exhaustion and terror with a bit of dysentery thrown in for good measure. But every memory tendered with the realization that we did our country a great service." GAR member 1904.

[johan_steele]

A score of millions hear the cry
And herald it abroad,
To arms they fly to do or die
For Liberty and God.

E.P. Dyer

[johan_steele]

Now I lay me down to sleep
In mud that's many fathoms deep;
If I'm not here when you awake,
Just hunt me up with an oyster rake.

Revised prayer of the "Mud March." J. Billings

[johan_steele]

"Them fellers out thar you ar goin up against, ain't none of the blue-bellied, white-livered Yanks and sassidge-eatin'forrin' hirelin's you have in Virginny that run at the snap of a cap - they're Western fellers, an' they'll mighty quick give you a bellyful o' fightin."

Robert C. Anderson, 2nd KY Inf. CS KIA Chickamauga


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[johan_steele]

"Any man thinks this is too hard can go join the Confederate Army. Fighting's easier in Virginia anyway." Unnamed Texas captain of a Frontier Company on fighting Commanches on the Texas frontier.

[johan_steele]

"I'll take orders; might whip ya later but I'll take orders." Unnamed Texas Volunteer

[johan_steele]

"There's nuff a us ta fix his wagon if he gets out of line." A Texas Volunteer refering to his Captain.

[thea_447]

"For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South..."
-- Col. James Arthur Lyon Fremantle, Coldstream Guards, British Army "Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863"