Joshua Chamberlain Quotes About Civil War

• The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Horse, War, Men

• Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  College, Civil War, Wish

  Mark Nesbit, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1996). “Through Blood & Fire”, p.24, Stackpole Books

• I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  War, Virginia, Blood

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1998). “The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

• A radiant fellowship of the fallen.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  War, History, Fellowship

• He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President, and even compelled acquiescence or silence from that dread source of paralyzing power, the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  War, Silence, President

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1998). “The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps”, p.29, U of Nebraska Press

• The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of the enemy than of my own men; gaps opening, swallowing, closing again with sharp convulsive energy. All around, a strange, mingled roar.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  War, Men, Enemy

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