Famous saying or quote from the Civil War.

By John Sedgwick at Spotsylvania in May 1864 while trying to position his troops---"Them Rebs couldn't hit an elephant at that dis....."

Reckon he was wrong.

Like a lot of generals!

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know, History is often manufacture of the mere liar! Jefferson Davis

Didn't he get killed a few rounds later? I can't remember.
Colt

Yeah, true.

But Unfortunately For Thomas J.Stonewall Jackson,

Them Dumb Rebels At Chancellorsville Couldn't Tell A Reb General from A Yankee.

Probably Lost The War for that Epic Fratricidal Failure.

Touche' RiverOtter2 !!

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"where all da white wimmen at?"-Unknown.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 20th Maine, ordered that he could not retreat, and being informed that his regiment was out of ammunition-

"Fix bayonets!"

Gives me goosebumps every time.

Telegram from Lincoln to Gen. George McClellan: "I have provided you with the Army, General, so when are you going to use it"?

sorry bout that bro.

X2, and downhill charge too!

All I Can Hear Is Them Alabama Rebel Crickets A' Chirpin. LOL

I had kinfolk on the downhill side, it didn't go well for them.

Come on you Wolverines!!!

Custer

Robert E. Lee to General Longstreet upon winning the battle of Fredericksburg. “It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” General Sherman said “war is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”

"But general, I have no more army" -Maj. Gen. George Pickett after his infamous charge when asked to attack a second time.

" (Darn) the torpedoes, full speed ahead" Rear Admiral David Farragut.

Yes, and at the time "torpedoes" was the word for mines floating in the water.

Hey. Charlie duck your head!...Little bit late on that one!! Oops that's off "hey mister Custer" song Ktell records.

"Come on, Come on! Do you want to live forever" Confererate Colonel leading a charge at Malvern Hill, 1862.

"The Nightmare is gone" Lincoln upon learning that Lee had ask for terms.

Jackson was hit three times, and a Southern bullet shattered his left arm, which had to be amputated the next day. Soon, pneumonia set in, and Jackson began to fade. He died, as he had wished, on the Sabbath, May 10, 1863, with these last words: “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.”

I found this account of William J. Barbie, a scout in Hood's Texans at Gettysburg to be pretty amazing.
As the 1st Texas was attacking Devil's Den at triangle field, a Texan by the name of William J. Barbie rode up on his horse to triangle field, as he was riding his horse got shot out from under him and in one motion he sprang from his saddle and without missing a step he climbed up on a boulder. Once he was on top of the boulder he stood up and started cussing and hollerin at the yanks on the opposite side of the field. As he was doing this the Texans on the ground below him started to pass up loaded rifles to him and he began calmly firing at the yankee line while bullets were flying all around him. He had fired about 20 shots when a bullet struck him in the leg and knocked him off the rock, no sooner had he been hit when he got on top of the rock again and resumed firing. Well a little while later he got hit in his leg again and fell off the rock, and for a third time he climbed back up on top of the rock and resumed firing. As he was firing he got hit in the chest and fell off the rock and as he lay next to his fellow Texans he began cussin and yelling at them because they wouldn't lift him up onto the rock again.

Gettysburg is truly a special place to visit I've been twice and want too go back.
Colt

Not sure what battle it was but a Texas soldier said "There was so many musket balls coming at us I just wanted to hold my hat up and catch me some".

There was another story of a guy that ordered his own execution "fire" by firing squad b/c the commander couldn't bring himself to do it in the face of the convicted soldiers bravery so the guy ordered it himself. I can't find it anywhere to copy and paste that one though.

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“Put the boys in, and may God forgive me for the order.”
General John C. Breckinridge - Battle of New Market

when sending 257 Cadets from Virginia Military Institute who had been pulled in as "reserve". The average age of about 16. 10 were killed in action, or as a direct result of action. 45 more wounded.

following a Union retreat Breckinridge said, “Well done, Virginians. Well done, men.”

Last diary entry found on a dead soldier, ‘June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed.’ Pretty amazing if you really let it sink in.

Haha! Yep

Old song "Mr. Custer" I don't wanna gooooo!

Written and sung by musician/comedian Ray Stevens, later widely known for "Shriner's Convention" and "The Streak".

Hahaha correct

"There is nothing left for me to do but go see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths" General Lee upon deciding to surrender his army. 1865

Ever seen the movie Johnny Shiloh? He was for real, John Glem of Ohio who retired from the Army in 1916.

I Fixed It For You Riverotter2.

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you'll shoot your eye out kid.

Please; Mr Custer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe0q8Lq3L2Q