James Longstreet Quotes

There Was No Indication Of Panic. The Broken Files Marched Back In Steady Step. The Effort Was Nobly Made And Failed From The Blows That Could Not Be Fended.

If We Only Save The Finger Of One Man, That's Enough.

I Fancy That No Good Ideas Upon That Campaign Will Be Mentioned At Any Time That Did Not Receive Their Share Of Consideration By General Lee.

I Cannot Help But Think That Great Results Would Have Been Obtained Had My Views Been Thought Better Of; Yet I Am Much Inclined To Accept The Present Condition As For The Best.

If The Entire Union Army Comes Across Here, I Will Kill Them All!

General, Unless He Offers Us Honorable Terms, Come Back And Let Us Fight It Out!

I Hope To Live Long Enough To See My Surviving Comrades March Side By Side With The Union Veterans Along Pennsylvania Avenue, And Then I Will Die Happy.

This Is A Hard Fight And We Had Better All Die Than Lose It.

General, If You Put Every Union Soldier Now On The Other Side Of The Potomac On That Field To Approach Me Over The Same Line, I Will Kill Them All Before They Reach My Line.

My Arm Is Paralyzed; My Voice That Once Could Be Heard All Along The Line, Is Gone; I Can Scarcely Speak Above A Whisper; My Hearing Is Very Much Impaired, And Sometimes I Feel As If I Wished The End Would Come; But I Have Some Misrepresentations Of My Battles That I Wish To Correct, So As To Have My Record Correct Before I Die.

I Do Not Want To Make This Charge. I Do Not See How It Can Succeed. I Would Not Make It Now But That General Lee Has Ordered It And Expects It.

Why Do Men Fight Who Were Born To Be Brothers?