Quotations - North and South

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1. "At half-past four, the heavy booming of a cannon. I sprang out of bed. And on my knees --- prostrate --- I prayed as I never prayed before." Ulysses S. Grant Mary Chestnut Clara Barton Jefferson Davis

2. "All night and all day I have heard those poor people crying for water, and I can stand it no longer. I came to ask permission to go and give them water." Tom Allen Richard Kirkland William Fowler Henry Bingham

3. "My plans are perfect. May God have mercy on General Lee for I will have none." George B. McClellan Joseph Hooker Ambrose E. Burnside John Pope

4. "I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes." Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln Edward Everett Robert E. Lee

5. "Numbers have now no terror for the Southern people. They are willing to wage war against quadruple their number." Benjamin F. Butler Robert E. Lee John Jones Charles Marshall

6. "Look, men! There stands Jackson like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!" Jubal A. Early James Longstreet Barnard E. Bee Francis S. Bartow

7. "War is horrible because it strangles youth." Robert E. Lee Frederick Douglass Walt Whitman Philip Kearny

8. "We are now on the brink of destruction. It appears to me that the Almighty is against us." Robert E. Lee Abraham Lincoln Mary Chestnut Thomas Chamberlain

9. "They do not know what they say. If it comes to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. northern politicians do not appreciate the determination and pluck of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources, and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that the country will have to pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins." Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davis John Jones

10. "Lincoln -- old Abe Lincoln -- killed -- murdered.... It is simply maddening, all of this ... I know this foul murder will bring down worse miseries on us." Frederick Douglass Robert E. Lee Mary Chestnut Jefferson Davis