I Will Be In My Coffin Before

If You Surrender You Shall Be Treated As Prisoners Of War, But If I Haveto Storm Your Works You May Expect No Quarter.

Get There First With The Most Men.

I Loved The Old Government In 1861. I Loved The Old Constitution Yet. I Think It Is The Best Government In The World, If Administered As It Was Before The War. I Do Not Hate It; I Am Opposing Now Only The Radical Revolutionists Who Are Trying To Destroy It. I Believe That Party To Be Composed, As I Know It Is In Tennessee, Of The Worst Men On Gods Earth - Men Who Would Not Hesitate At No Crime, And Who Have Only One Object In View - To Enrich Themselves.

I Will Be In My Coffin Before I Will Fight Again Under Your Command.

I Have Stood Your Meanness As Long As I Intend To. You Have Played The Part Of A Damn Scoundrel, And If You Were Any Part Of A Man I Would Slap Your Jaws And Force You To Resent It.