Union Army Quotes by James Longstreet

More Quotes by James Longstreet

James Longstreet has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
• General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over…
• I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now…
• General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!
• I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I…
• The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside,…
• This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
• If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.
• Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
• I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of…
• If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!
• I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue,…

See all 27 quotes by James Longstreet »