Knute Nelson Quotes

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• In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.
• What is best and most necessary usually happens.
• It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta -…
• Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
• The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and…
• Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.
• I know that money speaks more loudly than need.
• Man is remembered by his deeds.
• Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.
• You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have…
• You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
• Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose,…
• It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.
• I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country…
• But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our…
• We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.
• That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

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