Quotes by James Longstreet

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.

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My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in...

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In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the...

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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with...

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If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I...

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I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side...

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I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time...

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I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views...

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General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops...

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General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the...

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Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that...

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Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of...

#James Longstreet