1. "Dig Johnnies, I'm coming for you!"
Newton Martin Curtis, as he threw a handful of shovels over the traverse at Ft. Fisher before leading the attack. The shovels had been sent forward with the suggestion of entrenching for a siege.
2. "Colonel, where is thy music ?"
" In our cartridge boxes."
Col. Thomas A Davies prompt reply to the leader of the mob in Baltimore. The 16th NY was the first regiment to march through the city unmolested. Musicians were recruited later, after the emergency call to the defense of Washington had passed.