General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail. — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out! — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal. — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
