![Civil War Quotes 1864-1865 “War is simply power restrained by the constitution or compact” –Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman “Lee’s army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.” -Gen. Ulysses S. Grant “If victorious, we have everything to live for. If defeated, there will be nothing to live for.” –Gen. Robert E. Lee “Face the fire and go in where it is hottest.” –Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill “Scarce we had moved a step, when Gen. Lee, in front of the whole command, raised himself in his stirrups, uncovered his grey hairs, and with an earnest, yet anxious voice, exclaimed above the din and confusion of the hour, “Texans always move them.”… Never before in my lifetime or since, did I ever witness such a scene as was enacted when Lee pronounced these words, with the appealing look he gave. A yell rent the air that must have been heard for miles around, and but few eyes in that old brigade of veterans and heroes of many a bloody field was undimmed by honest, heartfelt tears. [The man next to me,] with tears coursing down his cheeks and yells issuing from his throat exclaimed, ‘I would charge hell itself for that old man.’” –Pvt. Robert Campell, 5 th Texas Infantry “I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.” –Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the battle of the Wilderness “I saw two hundred wagons crowded with wounded men. The dark spot in the mud told all too plainly where some poor fellow’s life had dripped out in those dreadful hours. While our soldiers fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. My place is anywhere between the bullet and the battlefield.” –Clara Barton “Grant’s military standing with the enlisted men this day hung on the direction we turned at the Chancellorsville House. If to the left, he was to be rated with Meade and Hooker and Burnside and Popethe generals who preceded him….[W]e turned to the right. Instantly all of us heard a sigh of relief. Our spirits rose. We marched freely. The men began to sing. The enlisted men understood the flanking movement. That night we were happy.” –Pvt. Frank Wilkenson “Go back! Go back! And do your duty, as I have done mine, and our country will be safe. Go back! Go back! I had rather die than be whipped.” –Gen. J.E.B. Stuart at Yellow Tavern “I will not take my regiment in another such charge if Jesus Christ himself should order it!” –Union Capt. Thomas E. Baker“Follow Forrest to the death if it cost ten thousand lives and breaks the [Federal] treasury. There will be no peace in Tennessee till Forrest is dead.” –Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman “I steadily believe that Grant is going to succeed, and that we shall have Richmond-but oh what a price to pay for it!” –Walt Whitman “This war is eating my life out. I have a strong impression that I shall not live to see the end.” –Abraham Lincoln “Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!” –Adm. David Glasgow Farragut at Mobile Bay “If slaves make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong.” –Gen. Howell Cobb “This morning, as for some time past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration, as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.” –Abraham Lincoln “If the North can march and army right through the South, it is proof positive that the North can prevail….I will not attempt to send couriers back, but trust to the Richmond papers to keep you well advised. I can make this march and make Georgia howl!” –Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman “The truth is, the whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina. I almost tremble at her fate, but feel that she deserves all that seems to be in store for her.” – Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman “I begin to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah.” –Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman “I want Sheridan put in command of all the troops in the field with instructions to put himself south of the enemy and follow him to the death.” –Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant “Reduction to poverty brings prayers for peace more surely and more quickly than does the destruction of human life.” –Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan “Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.” –Abraham Lincoln, Nov 21, 1864, to Lydia Bixby, a widow who supposedly lost five sons in the war, some doubt Lincoln wrote the letter.“Both sides read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.” –Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 “I mean to end this business here.” Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Petersburg, March 1865 “The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again.” –Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, April 9, 1865 “Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood, with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bonds. Was not such manhood to be welcomed back into a union so tested and assured?...We cannot look into those brave, bronzed faces and think of hate and personal mean revenge. Whoever had misled these men, we had not. We had led them back home.” –Union Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, at the surrender ceremonies at Appomattox. April 12, 1865.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8G6u4QPWcK5T9qRJwSO8drMRKdIKE-6ath-0PdjMd4PU1r5CeUqB85Q0GC9gO7JooR8mRwy9Q6maFH-xr7ONhspJqQb9fI5I3WrowPzCvaamm6zvZ7yqHlyjCw9dwlh0qOZP1mTl_d0/s1600/civil+war+quotes.jpg "Civil War Quotes 1864-1865 “War is simply power restrained by the constitution or compact” –Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman “Lee’s army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.” -Gen. Ulysses S. Grant “If victorious, we have everything to live for. If defeated, there will be nothing to live for.” –Gen. Robert E. Lee “Face the fire and go in where it is hottest.” –Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill “Scarce we had moved a step, when Gen. Lee, in front of the whole command, raised himself in his stirrups, uncovered his grey hairs, and with an earnest, yet anxious voice, exclaimed above the din and confusion of the hour, “Texans always move them.”… Never before in my lifetime or since, did I ever witness such a scene as was enacted when Lee pronounced these words, with the appealing look he gave. A yell rent the air that must have been heard for miles around, and but few eyes in that old brigade of veterans and heroes of many a bloody field was undimmed by honest, heartfelt tears. [The man next to me,] with tears coursing down his cheeks and yells issuing from his throat exclaimed, ‘I would charge hell itself for that old man.’” –Pvt. Robert Campell, 5 th Texas Infantry “I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.” –Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the battle of the Wilderness “I saw two hundred wagons crowded with wounded men. The dark spot in the mud told all too plainly where some poor fellow’s life had dripped out in those dreadful hours. While our soldiers fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. My place is anywhere between the bullet and the battlefield.” –Clara Barton “Grant’s military standing with the enlisted men this day hung on the direction we turned at the Chancellorsville House. If to the left, he was to be rated with Meade and Hooker and Burnside and Popethe generals who preceded him….[W]e turned to the right. Instantly all of us heard a sigh of relief. Our spirits rose. We marched freely. The men began to sing. The enlisted men understood the flanking movement. That night we were happy.” –Pvt. Frank Wilkenson “Go back! Go back! And do your duty, as I have done mine, and our country will be safe. Go back! Go back! I had rather die than be whipped.” –Gen. J.E.B. Stuart at Yellow Tavern “I will not take my regiment in another such charge if Jesus Christ himself should order it!” –Union Capt. Thomas E. Baker“Follow Forrest to the death if it cost ten thousand lives and breaks the [Federal] treasury. There will be no peace in Tennessee till Forrest is dead.” –Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman “I steadily believe that Grant is going to succeed, and that we shall have Richmond-but oh what a price to pay for it!” –Walt Whitman “This war is eating my life out. I have a strong impression that I shall not live to see the end.” –Abraham Lincoln “Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!” –Adm. David Glasgow Farragut at Mobile Bay “If slaves make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong.” –Gen. Howell Cobb “This morning, as for some time past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration, as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.” –Abraham Lincoln “If the North can march and army right through the South, it is proof positive that the North can prevail….I will not attempt to send couriers back, but trust to the Richmond papers to keep you well advised. I can make this march and make Georgia howl!” –Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman “The truth is, the whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina. I almost tremble at her fate, but feel that she deserves all that seems to be in store for her.” – Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman “I begin to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah.” –Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman “I want Sheridan put in command of all the troops in the field with instructions to put himself south of the enemy and follow him to the death.” –Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant “Reduction to poverty brings prayers for peace more surely and more quickly than does the destruction of human life.” –Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan “Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.” –Abraham Lincoln, Nov 21, 1864, to Lydia Bixby, a widow who supposedly lost five sons in the war, some doubt Lincoln wrote the letter.“Both sides read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.” –Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 “I mean to end this business here.” Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Petersburg, March 1865 “The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again.” –Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, April 9, 1865 “Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood, with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bonds. Was not such manhood to be welcomed back into a union so tested and assured?...We cannot look into those brave, bronzed faces and think of hate and personal mean revenge. Whoever had misled these men, we had not. We had led them back home.” –Union Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, at the surrender ceremonies at Appomattox. April 12, 1865.")
Civil War Quotes 1864-1865
“War is simply power restrained by the constitution or compact” –Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
“Lee’s army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.” -Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant
“If victorious, we have everything to live for. If defeated, there will be nothing to live for.” –Gen. Robert
E. Lee
“Face the fire and go in where it is hottest.” –Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill
“Scarce we had moved a step, when Gen. Lee, in front of the whole command, raised himself in his
stirrups, uncovered his grey hairs, and with an earnest, yet anxious voice, exclaimed above the din and
confusion of the hour, “Texans always move them.”… Never before in my lifetime or since, did I ever
witness such a scene as was enacted when Lee pronounced these words, with the appealing look he
gave. A yell rent the air that must have been heard for miles around, and but few eyes in that old
brigade of veterans and heroes of many a bloody field was undimmed by honest, heartfelt tears. [The
man next to me,] with tears coursing down his cheeks and yells issuing from his throat exclaimed, ‘I
would charge hell itself for that old man.’” –Pvt. Robert Campell, 5
th
Texas Infantry
“I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is
suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same
time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee
is going to do.” –Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the battle of the Wilderness
“I saw two hundred wagons crowded with wounded men. The dark spot in the mud told all too plainly
where some poor fellow’s life had dripped out in those dreadful hours. While our soldiers fight, I can
stand and feed and nurse them. My place is anywhere between the bullet and the battlefield.” –Clara
Barton
“Grant’s military standing with the enlisted men this day hung on the direction we turned at the
Chancellorsville House. If to the left, he was to be rated with Meade and Hooker and Burnside and Popethe generals who preceded him….[W]e turned to the right. Instantly all of us heard a sigh of relief. Our
spirits rose. We marched freely. The men began to sing. The enlisted men understood the flanking
movement. That night we were happy.” –Pvt. Frank Wilkenson
“Go back! Go back! And do your duty, as I have done mine, and our country will be safe. Go back! Go
back! I had rather die than be whipped.” –Gen. J.E.B. Stuart at Yellow Tavern
“I will not take my regiment in another such charge if Jesus Christ himself should order it!” –Union Capt.
Thomas E. Baker“Follow Forrest to the death if it cost ten thousand lives and breaks the [Federal] treasury. There will be
no peace in Tennessee till Forrest is dead.” –Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
“I steadily believe that Grant is going to succeed, and that we shall have Richmond-but oh what a price
to pay for it!” –Walt Whitman
“This war is eating my life out. I have a strong impression that I shall not live to see the end.” –Abraham
Lincoln
“Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!” –Adm. David Glasgow Farragut at Mobile Bay
“If slaves make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong.” –Gen. Howell Cobb
“This morning, as for some time past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be
re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union
between the election and the inauguration, as he will have secured his election on such ground that he
cannot possibly save it afterwards.” –Abraham Lincoln
“If the North can march and army right through the South, it is proof positive that the North can
prevail….I will not attempt to send couriers back, but trust to the Richmond papers to keep you well
advised. I can make this march and make Georgia howl!” –Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
“The truth is, the whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South
Carolina. I almost tremble at her fate, but feel that she deserves all that seems to be in store for her.” –
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
“I begin to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah.” –Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
“I want Sheridan put in command of all the troops in the field with instructions to put himself south of
the enemy and follow him to the death.” –Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
“Reduction to poverty brings prayers for peace more surely and more quickly than does the destruction
of human life.” –Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan
“Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of
Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you
from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that
may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you
only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid
so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.” –Abraham Lincoln, Nov 21, 1864, to Lydia Bixby, a
widow who supposedly lost five sons in the war, some doubt Lincoln wrote the letter.“Both sides read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It
may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from
the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.” –Abraham Lincoln, Second
Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
“I mean to end this business here.” Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Petersburg, March 1865
“The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again.” –Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, April 9, 1865
“Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood, with eyes looking level into ours,
waking memories that bound us together as no other bonds. Was not such manhood to be welcomed
back into a union so tested and assured?...We cannot look into those brave, bronzed faces and think of
hate and personal mean revenge. Whoever had misled these men, we had not. We had led them back
home.” –Union Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, at the surrender ceremonies at Appomattox. April
12, 1865.
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