ewc
Sergeant
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- pittsburgh
Mr Lincoln is the acknowledged master here, but I will start out with three others that I enjoy:
-Upon the collapse of the Confederate lines on Missionary Ridge, breaking the Rebels' Siege of Chattanooga, Bragg, the commanding general, rode into the mob of his retreating troops trying to stem the tide and restore order, shouting "Here's your commander!"
To which, undeterred fleeing soldiers reply "Here's your mule!"
-Rebel General Joe Johnston, upon hearing of Lee's repulse of the Army of the Potomac with heavy losses at Fredericksburg, the Yanks charging repeatedly up Marye's Heights, lamented "The luck some people have! Nobody will come and attack me in such a place!"
-Rebel General Bedford Forrest had a particular talent at undoing Yankee generals. Forrest, as usual, showed up unannounced with his horsemen in Yankee occupied Memphis well before dawn August 21, 1864. 3 Federal generals managed to evade capture, one- the district commander, General CC Washburn, in his nightshirt and out the backdoor as Forrest's men came in the front, and another- the former district commander, General Stephen Hurlbut, because he was not at home, but laying low, as some might put it, with a lady acquaintance with whom he enjoyed friendly relations. Hurlbut, superceded by the Union brass to see if Washburn might have better luck corraling Forrest, declared, in a classic statement on this raid, "They removed me from command because I couldn't keep Forrest out of West Tennessee, and now Washburn can't keep him out of his own bedroom!"
Cheers all, ewc
-Upon the collapse of the Confederate lines on Missionary Ridge, breaking the Rebels' Siege of Chattanooga, Bragg, the commanding general, rode into the mob of his retreating troops trying to stem the tide and restore order, shouting "Here's your commander!"
To which, undeterred fleeing soldiers reply "Here's your mule!"
-Rebel General Joe Johnston, upon hearing of Lee's repulse of the Army of the Potomac with heavy losses at Fredericksburg, the Yanks charging repeatedly up Marye's Heights, lamented "The luck some people have! Nobody will come and attack me in such a place!"
-Rebel General Bedford Forrest had a particular talent at undoing Yankee generals. Forrest, as usual, showed up unannounced with his horsemen in Yankee occupied Memphis well before dawn August 21, 1864. 3 Federal generals managed to evade capture, one- the district commander, General CC Washburn, in his nightshirt and out the backdoor as Forrest's men came in the front, and another- the former district commander, General Stephen Hurlbut, because he was not at home, but laying low, as some might put it, with a lady acquaintance with whom he enjoyed friendly relations. Hurlbut, superceded by the Union brass to see if Washburn might have better luck corraling Forrest, declared, in a classic statement on this raid, "They removed me from command because I couldn't keep Forrest out of West Tennessee, and now Washburn can't keep him out of his own bedroom!"
Cheers all, ewc