Avoid Quote by James Longstreet

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

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

— Colin Powell

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If…

— William Lee Miller

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

— Marianne Williamson

“In general, our generals were out generalled.”

— John Adams

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force,

— Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose…

— Roscoe Conkling

no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

— Terry Goodkind

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

— Martin Luther

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

— Christopher Vokes

Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time…

— Horace Porter

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn