John S. Mosby Quotes

• War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the first that the last one I was in. It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it.

  John S. Mosby

  Country, Sweet, War

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• The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].

  John S. Mosby

  Military, Army, Men

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• He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.

  John S. Mosby

  Song, Prayer, War

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• War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

  John S. Mosby

  War, Romance, Soldier

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• Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

  John S. Mosby

  War, Army, Men

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• General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

  John S. Mosby

  War, Dresses, Get Up

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• Well, it made you famous.

  John S. Mosby

  War, Civil War, Made

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