James Longstreet

“General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arrayed for battle can take that position.”

“We should have made the fight up there. We should have held the heights, and made them attack us.”

“There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.”

“It is my opinion that we should have waited for the enemy to attack us.”

“I never like to go into battle with a hungry stomach.”

“Our numbers were less than one-half the enemy's... We were without food, and our ordnance trains were empty.”

“That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.”

“The best of soldiers do not know what they are fighting for.”

“I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans in peaceful parade.”

“The business of the soldier is to fight. The business of the statesman is to make peace.”