Member Review Favorite Quotes

[marineguy07]

What are some of your favorite quotes from the civil war?

A. Lincoln "I can't spare this man, he fights"

Also Lincoln's Quote about using the Army if Gen. McClellan wasn't going to. Lol

 

[peacefulanimalguy7]

"Take those colors." General Winfield Scott Hancock to Colonel Colvill, July 2, 1863

 

[TerryB]

Hooker:"My headquarters will be in the saddle."
Some Rebel wag:"General Hooker doesn't know his headquarters from his hindquarters!"

 

[rpkennedy]

Hooker:"My headquarters will be in the saddle."
Some Rebel wag:"General Hooker doesn't know his headquarters from his hindquarters!"

I thought that that was John Pope.

Ryan

 

[bankerpapaw]

I'm paraphrasing. Robert E. Lee said, "It is good that war is so terrible or we would grow too fond of it."

 

[Kurtlg]

From General Sturgis; "I don't care for John Pope one pinch of owl dung."

 

[TerryB]

I thought that that was John Pope.

Ryan

Yeah, I didn't fact check it, so I bet you're right.

 

[TerryB]

Forrest: "Charge!"
An aide: "But, General, the Yanks are coming at us from two sides!"
Forrest:"Then charge both ways!"

 

[Tennessee Union Gal]

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

-William Tecumseh Sherman

 

[gjpratt]

@TerryB will recognize this one.

During the battle of Thompson's Station, several locals sheltered in the basement of the Homestead Manor, which was square in the middle of the battlefield, including 17 year old Alice Thompson. As the 3d Arkansas was advancing through the yard the color bearer fell from a volley. Alice impulsively ran out of the basement, picked up the flag and waved it to rally the regiment. The colonel, Samuel G. Earle, yelled out "Boys, a woman has your flag."

The soldiers rallied and pushed Alice back to the basement. Col. Earle was killed shortly thereafter. I have always wondered whether Col. Earle's said this sarcastically or angrily. I can understand either version working.

 

[Library Lady]

@TerryB will recognize this one.

During the battle of Thompson's Station, several locals sheltered in the basement of the Homestead Manor, which was square in the middle of the battlefield, including 17 year old Alice Thompson. As the 3d Arkansas was advancing through the yard the color bearer fell from a volley. Alice impulsively ran out of the basement, picked up the flag and waved it to rally the regiment. The colonel, Samuel G. Earle, yelled out "Boys, a woman has your flag."

The soldiers rallied and pushed Alice back to the basement. Col. Earle was killed shortly thereafter. I have always wondered whether Col. Earle's said this sarcastically or angrily. I can understand either version working.

Alternatively, with great respect for the woman. Just a thought.

 

[Manassas 1861]

"We will fight them until hell freezes over, then we will fight them on ice." - Confederate Soldier

 

[Pollaco]

"I don't care for John Pope one pinch of Owl Dung". Gen Sturgis about Gen. John Pope... Oops, sorry it's been used

 

[Pollaco]

"There stands Jackson like a stonewall". Gen. Barnard Bee about Thomas Jackson. But did he mean it or was he being sarcastic?

 

[Doc_Ralph]

""From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide."

Abraham Lincoln

 

[Pollaco]

"Texans always move them"! Lee at the Wilderness

 

[Pollaco]

"Texans always move them"! Lee at the Wilderness

To which a Texan replied "I would charge hell itself for that old man".

 

[Doc_Ralph]

"There stands Jackson like a stonewall". Gen. Barnard Bee about Thomas Jackson. But did he mean it or was he being sarcastic?

Hmmm… the rest of the quote is ". Rally behind the Virginians!"

There is another stone wall quote from Antietam from a disgruntled officer.

Below is AI generated
Jackson refused to budge before an enemy onslaught (the place where his statue stands today at Antietam) and someone of his troops shouted out in the chaos "There stands Jackson like a stone wall!" It has also been alleged that it was actually said by a disgruntled commander of another unit who felt Jackson hadn't .

 

[Pollaco]

"If I owned hell and Texas , I'd rent out Texas and live in hell". Phil Sheridan

 

[Pollaco]

Hard to believe neither "Strike the tent" or "Let us cross over the River..." haven't shown up yet.