James Longstreet famous quotes

03-28-2025

I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more. But there are no fifteen thousand men i the world that can go across that ground.
-- James Longstreet

#War #Men #Soldier
Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.
-- James Longstreet

#War #Errors #Civil War
I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.
-- James Longstreet

#War #Want #Succeed
The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his hand in mine was, Pete, let us have another game of brag, to recall the days that were so pleasant. Great God! I thought to myself, how my heart swells out to such magnanimous touch of humanity. Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
-- James Longstreet

#Brother #War #Heart
The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.
-- James Longstreet

#Struggle #Passion #Sleep
General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.
-- James Longstreet

#War #Soldier #Unions
If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!
-- James Longstreet

#Military #Army #Unions
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.
-- James Longstreet

#Ideas #Campaigns #Fancy
There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.
-- James Longstreet

#Blow #Broken #Effort
This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.
-- James Longstreet

#War #Fighting #Civil War
If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.
-- James Longstreet

#War #Men #Enough
I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.
-- James Longstreet

#Thinking #Views #Helping
Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
-- James Longstreet

#Brother #War #Fighting
General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!
-- James Longstreet

#War #Fighting #Honorable
I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.
-- James Longstreet

#Veterans Day #Long #Civil War

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