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General Quotes by James Longstreet
- General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line,…
- I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General…
- General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!
- The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his hand…
- I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General…
- 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,…
- General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
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