Confederate Quotes
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy: that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers: learn from Northern school books their version of the war: will be impressed by all the influences of history to reguard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision...
~ General Patrick Cleburne
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today ... The reputation of an individual is of minor importance to the opinion posterity may form of the motives which governed the South in their late struggle for the maintenance of the principles of the Constitution. I hope therefore, a true history will be written, and justice will be done them.
I fought against the people of the North because they were seeking to wrest from the South it's dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
“Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention. Profoundly impressed with the solemnity of the occasion, for which I must say I was not prepared, I accept the position assigned me by our partiality. I would have much preferred had your choice fallen on an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience, and the aid of my fellow-citizens, I devote myself to the service of my native State, in whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword.” This was a breef speach given by the general, accepting command of the CSA's Armed Forces.
~ General Robert E. Lee
"See that the day is ours!"
~ General Beauregard
- Upon recognizing the Confederate Stars and Bars carried by reenforcements at the first battle of Manassas
Let us cross over the river, and sit in the shade of the trees.
~ General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson - His last words, Killed in error by hiis own troops, 1863
Up, men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia!
~ General George Pickett - Said to troops before infamous Picketts Charge, Gettysburg 3 July, 1863
Give them the cold steel boys!
~ General Lewis Armistead - Gettysburg, 1863
We will fight them, sir, till hell freezes, and then, sir, we'll fight them on the ice.
~ Anonymous Confederate Soldier
Sherman'll never go to hell; he will flank the devil and make Heaven in spite of the guards.
~ Unknown Confederate Soldier
There is a rancor in our hearts you little dream of, we hate you, sir.
~ Said to Union Soldier at Appomatox
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defence we made of our inheritance & denying the great truths on which all our institutions were founded. To be crushed by superior force, to be robbed; insulted, were great misfortunes, but these could be borne while there still remained manhood to assert the truth, and a proud consciousness in the rectitude of our course.
"I would have our children's children to know not only that our cause was just", he told members of the Southern Historical Society, "but to have them know that the men who sustained it were worthy of the cause for which they fought."
"It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green.", he announced. "We want our side of the war so fully and exactly stated, that the men who come after us may compare and do [us] justice."
~ President Jefferson Davis, CSA
If you ever cross my path again, it will be at the peril of your life.
Git thar fistus with the mostest.
Charge both ways.
~ General Nathan Bedford Forrest
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
~ General John Sedgwick - Killed in battle, 1864
Now, wasn't that refreshing?? :-)
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