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James Longstreet
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“General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position.”
James Longstreet (1821–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier: A Biography (1993), by Jeffry D. Wert, New York: Simon & Schuster, p. 283
“That man Grant will fight us everyday and every hour until the end of the war.”
James Longstreet (1821–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The surrender of the Confederate armies in 1865 involved: 1. The surrender of the claim to the right of secession. 2. The surrender of the former political relations of the negro. 3. The surrender of the Southern Confederacy. These issues expired on the fields last occupied by the Confederate armies. There they should have been buried. The soldier prefers to have the sod that receives him when he falls cover his remains. The political questions of the war should have been buried upon the fields that marked their end.”
James Longstreet (1821–1904) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the New Orleans Times (19 March 1867)
“The highest of human laws is the law that is established by appeal to arms. The sword has decided in favor of the North, and what they claimed as principles cease to be principles, and are become law. The views that we hold cease to be principles because they are opposed to law. It is our duty to abandon ideas that are obsolete and conform to the requirements of law.”
James Longstreet (1821–1904) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the New Orleans Times (8 June 1867)
“Great God! I thought to myself, how my heart swells out out to such magnanimous touch of humanity. Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?”
James Longstreet (1821–1904) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times (24 July 1885)