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." Mary Chestnut Clara Barton Ulysses S. Grant 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." Henry Bingham Tom Allen Richard Kirkland William Fowler

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

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." Edward Everett Robert E. Lee Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis

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

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 Philip Kearny Walt Whitman Frederick Douglass

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

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 John Jones Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee

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." Mary Chestnut Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Frederick Douglass